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VIENNA — Five former Austrian officials went on trial in Vienna on Friday accused of granting asylum to a suspected Syrian war criminal in Austria at the request of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.
Halabi led the Syrian General Intelligence Directorate in Raqqa from 2009-2013. When rebel forces captured Raqqa in 2013, Halabi fled to France, initially applying for asylum there.
International human rights groups have documented torture in Syrian facilities under Syrian President Bashar Assad, and allege that Halabi bears some responsibility.
Austrian authorities have also initiated criminal proceedings against Halabi but haven’t indicted him. Halabi’s lawyer, Timo Gerersdorfer, told The Associated Press that Halabi is cooperating fully with Austrian authorities, and that his client is not guilty.
“He fled Syria with the help of the Free Syrian Army. If he had agreed with the Assad regime, he would have stayed in Syria,” he said.
According to an investigation by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine and Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard, the Mossad recruited Halabi, a member of the Druze minority in Syria, as an informant. The Israeli prime minister’s office declined to comment.
Prosecutors accuse the former intelligence officials of breaching their duties to provide information about Halabi’s whereabouts and identity, particularly after a 2016 meeting at the Austrian Justice Ministry. At that meeting, representatives of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability presented evidence that Halabi was suspected of implication in potential war crimes in Syria and said France had initiated an investigation against him for possible “systematic torture.”
Prosecutor Ursula Schmudermayer told the Vienna state court that Austrian intelligence officials had travelled to Tel Aviv in March 2015 to meet Mossad agents. She said the Israeli agents informed the Austrians that the Syrian general was in France but that “cooperation with France is not working as they had envisioned,” so they wanted Austria “to step in.”
The Mossad intended to continue questioning Halabi in Austria, the prosecutor said, and paid 5,000 euros ($5,500) per month to help harbor him in Austria.
The indictment states that Martin W., who was a senior agent in Austria’s domestic intelligence agency, the BVT, at the time, concluded a “cooperation agreement with a foreign partner intelligence service” on May 6, 2015. The agreement contained details on how to bring Halabi from France to Austria and support him in applying for asylum, according to the indictment.
Martin W. was absent as the trial opened Friday due to health issues but the others were present. They answered short procedural questions but didn’t testify.
Their lawyers argued that the defendants acted correctly because all details about the cooperation agreement with the Mossad were labelled as “strictly confidential,” meaning that the agents were not allowed to disclose the operation to other state bodies.
They also argued that the cooperation agreement with Israeli intelligence helped Austria gain information that would not have been possible to receive in any other way. At the time, Europe faced the arrival of large numbers of refugees from the Syrian civil war and an increased terrorist threat.
Prosecutors accused the former asylum official, Gerald W., of manipulating the asylum procedure to enable Halabi’s asylum application in Austria though Halabi had already applied for asylum in France. His lawyer told the court that Gerald W. acted in good faith, trusting information given to him that Halabi was in danger in France.
The trial is scheduled to run through next Friday. It was not immediately clear when the court might issue verdicts.
The defendants can only be partially identified under Austrian rules.
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TORONTO (AP) — Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians and at least five class-action lawsuits allege the practice has not ended in Canada.
A Senate report last year concluded “this horrific practice is not confined to the past, but clearly is continuing today.” In May, a doctor was penalized for forcibly sterilizing an Indigenous woman in 2019.
Indigenous leaders say the country has yet to fully reckon with its troubled colonial past — or put a stop to a decades-long practice that is considered genocide.
There are no solid estimates on how many women are being sterilized against their will, but Indigenous experts say they regularly hear complaints about it. Sen. Yvonne Boyer, whose office is collecting the limited data available, says at least 12,000 women have been affected since the 1970s.
“Whenever I speak to an Indigenous community, I am swamped with women telling me that forced sterilization happened to them,” Boyer, who has Indigenous Metis heritage, told The Associated Press.
Medical authorities in Canada’s Northwest Territories sanctioned a doctor in May for forcibly sterilizing an Indigenous woman, according to documents obtained by the AP.
Dr. Andrew Kotaska performed the 2019 operation to relieve an Indigenous woman’s abdominal pain. He had her written consent to remove her right fallopian tube but not her left one, which would leave her sterile.
Despite objections from other medical staff during the surgery, Kotaska took out both fallopian tubes.
The investigation concluded there was no medical justification for the sterilization, and Kotaska was found to have engaged in unprofessional conduct. Kotaska’s “severe error in surgical judgment” was unethical, cost the patient the chance to have more children and could undermine trust in the medical system, investigators said.
The case was likely not exceptional.
Thousands of Indigenous Canadian women over the past seven decades were coercively sterilized, in line with eugenics legislation that deemed them inferior.
The Geneva Conventions describe forced sterilization as a type of genocide and crime against humanity and the Canadian government has condemned forced sterilization elsewhere, including of Uyghur women in China.
In 2018, the U.N. Committee Against Torture told Canada it was concerned about persistent reports of forced sterilization, saying all allegations should be investigated.
In 2019, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged that the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women across Canada amounted to “genocide,” but activists say little has been done to address ingrained prejudices against the Indigenous, allowing forced sterilizations to continue.
In a statement, the Canadian government told the AP it was aware of allegations that Indigenous women were forcibly sterilized and the matter is before the courts.
“Sterilization of women without their informed consent constitutes an assault and is a criminal offense,” the government said. It acknowledged that bias in the health system “continues to have catastrophic effects” on Indigenous people.
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Indigenous people comprise about 5% of Canada’s nearly 40 million people. The more than 600 Indigenous communities across Canada, known as First Nations, face significant health challenges compared to other Canadians.
Until the 1990s, Indigenous people were mostly treated in segregated hospitals, where there were reports of rampant abuse.
It’s difficult to say how common sterilization — with or without consent — happens. Canada’s national health agency doesn’t routinely collect sterilization data, including the ethnicity of patients.
In 2019, Sylvia Tuckanow told the Senate committee investigating forced sterilizations about how she gave birth in a Saskatoon hospital in July 2001. She described being disoriented from medication and being tied to a bed as she cried.
“I could smell something burning,” she said. “When the (doctor) was finished, he said, ‘There: tied, cut and burnt. Nothing will get through that,’” Tuckanow said, referring to her fallopian tubes. She said she hadn’t consented.
In November, a report documented nearly two dozen forced sterilizations in Quebec from 1980 to 2019, including one woman who said her doctor told her after bladder surgery that he had removed her uterus at the same time — without her consent.
The report concluded that doctors and nurses “insistently questioning whether a First Nations or Inuit mother wants to (be sterilized) after the birth of her first child seems to be an existing practice in Quebec.”
Some women were not even aware they were sterilized.
Morningstar Mercredi, an Alberta-based Indigenous author, was sterilized as a 14-year-old, but didn’t find out until decades later when she sought help after being unable to conceive.
“I went into a catatonic stage and had a nervous breakdown,” Mercredi wrote in her 2021 book, “Sacred Bundles Unborn.”
She said the impact of forced sterilizations on First Nations people was “staggering,” describing the generations of lost Indigenous lives as a “genocide.”
The Senate report on forced sterilization made 13 recommendations, including compensating victims, measures to address systemic racism in health care and a formal apology.
In response to questions from the AP, the Canadian government said it recognized “the pressing need” to end forced sterilization. The government said it had invested more than 87 million Canadian dollars ($65 million) to improve access to “culturally safe” health services, one-third of which supports Indigenous midwifery initiatives.
Last year, the government allocated 6.2 million Canadian dollars ($4.7 million) to help survivors of forced sterilization.
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Dr. Alika Lafontaine, the first Indigenous president of the Canadian Medical Association, recalls times when it was unclear whether Indigenous women had agreed to sterilization.
“In my residency, there were situations where we would do C-sections on patients and someone would lean over and say, ‘So we’ll also clip her (fallopian) tubes,’” he said. “It never crossed my mind whether these patients had an informed conversation” about sterilization, he said, adding he assumed that had happened before patients were on the operating table.
Dr. Ewan Affleck, who made a 2021 film, “ The Unforgotten,” about the pervasive racism against Canada’s Indigenous people, noted an ongoing “power imbalance” in health care. “If you have a white doctor saying to an Indigenous woman, ‘You should be sterilized,’ it may very likely happen,” Affleck said.
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There are at least five class-action lawsuits against health, provincial and federal authorities involving forced sterilizations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and elsewhere.
May Sarah Cardinal, the representative plaintiff in the Alberta case, said she was pressured into having her tubes tied after having her second child in 1977, but the doctor never explained the procedure was irreversible.
“The doctor told me: ‘There are hard times ahead and how are you going to look after a bunch of kids? What if your husband leaves?’” Cardinal told the AP. “I didn’t feel like I had a say.”
In the case against Kotaska, documents show an anesthetist and surgical nurse became alarmed when he said during the surgery to remove the woman’s right fallopian tube: “Let’s see if I can find a reason to take the left tube as well.”
Kotaska said he was “voicing his thought process out loud” that removing both tubes would lessen the woman’s pelvic pain.
Describing Kotaska’s actions as “a violation of his ethical obligations,” investigators suspended Kotaska’s medical license for five months and ordered him to take an ethics course. The woman is suing Kotaska and hospital authorities for 6 million Canadian dollars ($4.38 million).
There was no suggestion in the documents that Kotaska was motivated by racism. He declined to comment to the AP.
“People don’t want to believe things like this are happening in Canada, but cases like this explain why entire First Nations populations still feel unsafe,” said Dr. Unjali Malhotra, chief medical officer of the First Nations Health Authority in British Columbia.
Mercredi said she continues to suffer from being sterilized without her knowledge.
“No amount of therapy or healing can reconcile the fact that my human right to have children was taken from me,” she said.
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Which hair clips are best?
If you’ve ever had long hair, you know how unruly it can be. Shampooing, conditioning and brushing can be a time-consuming hassle, and some days trying to style it is even worse. With hair clips, you can easily keep hair out of your way without as much breakage. There are multiple types of hair clips, and each has its own uses, style, colors and finishes.
What to know before you buy a hair clip
Hair clip types
There are several types of hair clips but six of the most common are:
- Banana clips have two sides that pull apart to open up teeth in the center, then close around your hair. They’re best for pulling large amounts of hair back while still leaving it down.
- Claw clips have two sets of teeth that close by way of a hinge. They’re also good for gathering hair, but more in a bun than left down.
- Comb clips are mostly for aesthetics as they aren’t great at holding hair back in situations other than sedentary.
- Hinged barrette clips close over a small amount of hair and have a flat back that faces outward. They’re similar to claws, but with more emphasis on fashion.
- Mini clips are essentially claw clips on an ultra-small scale. The size makes them mostly meant for decoration rather than function. They’re excellent for children.
- Snap clips keep hair as close to the head as possible while holding it back. They’re usually small and simple and are particularly good for children.
What are the best banana hair clips to buy?
This 12-pack includes four designs of banana clip with three each per design so you have plenty of style options. There are also four color sets to choose from.
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If you only need a few basic banana clips, these are ideal. They’re easy to use and come in five color sets from blend-in colors, such as black and brown, to fun colors like neon pink, green and yellow.
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This is another excellent basic set of hair clips, but it comes with two of every different clip style. They’re sturdy without being difficult to open, and the black and brown colors mesh well with most hair colors.
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What are the best claw hair clips to buy?
These large claw clips are the perfect throwback to the ’90s, thanks to the overall style and wide range of matte or shiny colors. The spring is tight enough to hold hair without pulling it.
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If you’d prefer something more modern, go with these. The flat sides, solids colors and overall square-ish appearance go great with both casual and professional wear. There are 17 sets of colors.
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Most of these design bundle packs come in statement-making patterns, such as spotted animal prints or checkerboard. Order these if you like to make a splash.
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What are the best comb hair clips to buy?
Try one of the four sets of clips, each one containing different shapes, colors and numbers of teeth. They all achieve the same result: a simple, affordable and good-quality decoration for your hair.
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These clear comb clips are perfect for days when you just need to put your hair back without having to worry about matching or clashing with your outfit. They still come in back, brown and gold, if you prefer.
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These clips use two combs attached by beaded elastic strings to make a fashion statement and hold more hair. There are two sets of six designs.
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What are the best hinged barrette hair clips to buy?
Willbond Hinged Barrette Hair Clips
These hinged barrette collections show a little personality without making too strong of an impression, plus they’re durable and easy to use. There are seven sets to choose from.
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Hotop Hinged Barrette Hair Clips
This extra-large collection is great for those who like the style of using several clips and for those who have a problem losing them. They come solid or with a thin hollow through the center.
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Janinka Hinged Barrette Hair Clips
This massive 72-piece set is the perfect starter kit for younger children. They’re also easy to get on and off, so your children can style themselves without help.
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What are the best mini hair clips to buy?
Goody Classics Mini Claw Clips
These are roughly the size of a quarter and feature a slide-proof grip to help them stay in place. They come in an all-black pack of 12 or a multicolor pack of 15.
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These come in a pack of 50, perfect for children who always seem to lose a few clips each day. They come in flower, crown, butterfly and star shapes.
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These butterfly clips come in five color sets, some one color and some a mix, some opaque and some translucent. Some sets include 50, others include 100.
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What are the best snap hair clips to buy?
This six-pack of basic snap clips is good for many hairstyles, and the metallic finish has just enough of a glimmer to stand out without being too strong.
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If you do want a snap clip that stands out but is still somewhat refined, these golden snaps are perfect. They come in 11 other colors, too.
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These snap clips are mainly aimed at children, but the vibrant colors are strong enough for adult hair as well. There are 40 colors with three clips each.
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2 people dead in possible targeted attack in Orange County, deputies say
ORLANDO, Fla. - Two people were found dead Sunday morning in Central Florida in what could possibly have been a targeted attack, according to Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies responded to a 911 emergency call around 6 a.m. in the 10500 block of Bastille Lane and found a man and woman in their 40s with "obvious signs of trauma," a news release said.
Both were taken to the hospital where they died.
OCSO said it is possible that both victims were targeted and that detectives were working leads in the case.
"It's very early in the investigation and we have no additional details to release at this time," the release said.
OCSO have not released the names of the man and women who died, the circumstances of how they did, nor information on a possible suspect or suspects.
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Zirtue is removing the awkwardness of lending money to family and friends through automation, transparency, and accountability, by enabling lenders and borrowers to move an existing loan to the Zirtue app to help manage repayment.
DALLAS, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zirtue, the world's leading relationship-based lending app with a mission to drive financial inclusion, announces the expansion of its product to include Repayment Request for those with an existing loan with a friend or family member that may have put a strain on relationships. With this new feature, lenders and borrowers can now move pre-existing non-digital loans to Zirtue, and its technology platform will manage the loan, helping to preserve relationships while prioritizing accountability.
Friends and family are among the largest "banks" in the world, loaning $184 Billion annually. Zirtue is the modern-day solution for people to lend and borrow funds through relationship-based loans. Zirtue helps provide structure, efficiency, and accountability for existing loans while creating transparency between borrowers and lenders. Loved ones can work together to determine a manageable repayment plan with details such as the reason for the loan, total repayment amount, monthly payment schedule, and the repayment period. Zirtue also gives lenders peace of mind through loan tracking, an autopay feature, and automatic payment reminders for borrowers.
"Especially in today's economy, more and more people are struggling to keep up and may simply need a financial lifeline to pay their rent, get food on the table, and keep their lights on and homes warm," said Dennis Cail, CEO and Co-founder of Zirtue. "We know that money and relationships don't always mix, and it can be uncomfortable asking for financial help or lending money to someone you care about. Right now, it's more important than ever that they do mix because other borrowing options may be limited or worse, could put borrowers into crippling debt like high-interest credit cards or payday loans. At Zirtue, we're ensuring that borrowers feel comfortable asking for help and lenders have the transparency and security they need to extend a hand-up instead of a hand-out, all while maintaining their relationships."
Loaning money to friends and family can damage relationships, but Zirtue makes personal IOUs secure, accountable, and less awkward. More than $40 million in loans for bills and personalized IOUs have been processed on the platform.
To set up a personal loan repayment installment plan, get started with three, simple steps:
- Download Zirtue - Find it on the App Store or Google Play and create a free, secure account.
- Personalize your request - Work with your loved one to set up a repayment plan that works best for you both.
- Send the request - Send the loan repayment request to your lender or borrower.
- Let autopay do the rest - So you can focus on your relationship instead!
To learn more about Zirtue, visit zirtue.com.
About Zirtue
With a mission to drive financial inclusion one relationship at a time, Zirtue is the world's first relationship-based, peer-to-peer lending application with direct payments to creditors. Zirtue simplifies loans between friends, family, and trusted relationships by turning informal promises into structured agreements with an automated repayment process. Corporate partners use Zirtue as an alternative embedded bill payment solution, allowing customers to request loans from friends or family members in order to pay their bills. Zirtue has raised $6.6 million in VC funding and more than $40 million in loans for bills and personalized IOUs have been processed on the platform. You can learn more about Zirtue at zirtue.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell on Wall Street Tuesday after reports on the economy came in weaker than expected.
The S&P 500 dropped 23.91 points, or 0.6%, to 4,100.60 to break a four-day winning streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 198.77, or 0.6%, to 33,402.38, and the Nasdaq composite sank 63.13, or 0.5%, to 12,126.33.
Investors are still split on whether the U.S. economy will fall into a recession and how badly corporate profits are set to drop. The biggest question remains what the Federal Reserve will do next with interest rates after hiking them furiously over the last year to get high inflation under control.
The reports on job openings and factory orders released Tuesday may have heightened recession fears. But they may also give the Fed reason to hold rates steady at its next meeting, for the first time in more than a year, offering a possible upside for markets.
One report showed employers advertised 9.9 million job openings in February, a sharper fall-off than economists expected. The Fed has been paying close attention to the numbers because the job market has remained so strong despite higher rates. The hope is that a softening in the number of openings could take some pressure off inflation without having to throw many people out of work.
A separate report showed that factory orders weakened in February more than economists expected. That could give the Fed another reason to hold off on hiking rates again to beat inflation, which has been slowing but remains too high.
“It’s all suggesting that the economy is slowing down, which was the Fed’s intent all along in terms of raising rates,” said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist for SPDR business at State Street Global Advisors.
What the Fed does has such a grip on Wall Street because higher interest rates undercut inflation by slowing the entire economy, which raises the risk of a recession. They also hurt prices for stocks, bonds and other investments.
A potentially more impactful report will arrive Friday, when the U.S. government gives the latest monthly update on how many jobs were created across the country.
Some relatively encouraging data on inflation came in from other parts of the world Tuesday.
In Europe, a survey by the European Central Bank showed expectations for inflation in the coming year is falling among consumers in the region. That’s key because lower expectations can help the economy avoid a vicious cycle where inflation keeps building momentum.
A separate report also showed inflation at the wholesale level in the region slowed by more in February than economists expected.
In Australia, the country’s central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at 3.60%. It said it wanted time to see how its past hikes to interest rates are working through the system.
While Australia’s economy is much smaller than that of the U.S. or European Union, its central bank and that of New Zealand tend to “set the tone for monetary policy cycles,” Ipek Ozkardeskaya of Swissquote.com said in a commentary.
In the U.S., traders flipped bets back toward the Fed holding steady on rates at its meeting next month. A day earlier, a slight majority was betting on another increase in rates. That helped yields in the bond market to fall.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 3.34% from 3.42% late Monday. It helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans. The two-year Treasury, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, dropped to 3.82% from 3.97%.
Longer term, there seems to be more confidence on Wall Street that the Fed will have to cut rates later this year.
That has helped to buoy stocks, particularly technology and other high-growth companies, because rate cuts tend to act like steroids for markets. But the Fed has been consistent in saying it does not expect any rate cuts this year.
Critics also are skeptical, saying inflation still remains too high for the Fed’s liking. And any cut in rates would likely come only if the economy were in much weaker shape, something that could torpedo stocks too.
Tuesday’s weaker-than-expected readings on the economy follow a report on Monday that showed U.S. manufacturing continues to shrink faster than economists forecast.
Given such weakness, this is “not the time to chase growth,” suggested Mark Haefele, chief investment officer of UBS Global Wealth Management.
On Wall Street, shares of Virgin Orbit plunged 23.2% to 15 cents after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It’s been contending with the fallout of a failed mission this year and increasing difficulty in raising funding for future missions.
Stocks in industries whose profits are closely tied to the strength of the economy also fell more than the rest of the market, such as industrial and energy companies. Valero Energy fell 8% for one of the biggest losses in the S&P 500.
Oil prices swung through the day before adding to their big gains from Monday, when they shot higher on worries about tighter supplies.
Benchmark U.S. crude rose 29 cents to $80.71 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, rose a penny to $84.94 per barrel.
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AP Business Writers Elaine Kurtenbach and Matt Ott contributed.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Travis Boyd knocked in his own rebound early in the third period to break a tie and Clayton Keller added his second goal of the game late as the Arizona Coyotes held on to beat the New York Islanders 5-4 on Friday night.
Shayne Gostisbehere and Nick Bjugstad also scored for the Coyotes, who have won three straight home games — all since concluding a 14-game, 33-day road trip last week. Nick Schmaltz had three assists and Jakob Chychrun added two, and Karel Vejmelka had 30 saves in his fourth straight start.
“I just took it to the blue paint and was able to smack in the rebound,” Boyd said. “It was a big one for me. Going through a little cold streak, it is always nice to get one. Hopefully I can get on a little bit of a roll.”
Mathew Barzal had a goal and an assist, and Sebastian Aho, Anthony Beauvillier and Noah Dobson also scored for the Islanders, who are 1-3-1 in their last five. Oliver Wahlstrom had two assists. Ilya Sorokin finished with 24 saves.
Keller has five goals in his last three games, and both his goals in this game were redirected into the net after hitting Islanders defenders. His second-period goal caromed off Scott Mayfield’s skate, and he gave the Coyotes a 5-3 lead with 5:11 left after his shot appeared to hit Alexander Romanov in the groin region.
“There were a few pretty goals, but there were a lot of deflections, rebounds. Traffic. It was that kind of a game on both sides, a heavy game,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny said. “We created a lot of offense off our forecheck, and they did the same.”
Aho beat Vejmelka with a slap shot from above the left circle just 1:41 into the game on New York's first shot.
Barzal made it 2-0 when he slipped in a rebound of Robin Salo’s slap shot from the left point with 6:27 left in the opening period. Barzal, fifth in the NHL with 27 in assists, scored his third goal — all in the last 13 games.
Gostisbehere cut it to 2-1 when he picked up an attempted clearing pass and put a wrist shot from the the slot through traffic with 44 seconds remaining in the first.
“Giving up that goal shifted momentum a little bit,” Islanders coach Lane Lambert said. “We have to be better. We have to find a way to get it back. There are certain points and certain moments the momentum swings, whether it be us or somebody else, has a problem trouble getting it stopped immediately, which has to happen."
The Coyotes scored twice in a 14-second span midway through the second to take a 3-2 lead. Keller scored first, when his wrist shot from the left circle caromed in off Mayfield at 8:55. Bjugstad followed after the ensuing face-off on a one-timer from the left circle for his seventh.
Dobson scored an unassisted goal to tie it at 3-3 with 2:15 left in the second period. It was his second goal in two games.
Boyd put the Coyotes ahead for good at 2:08 of the third. Schmaltz assisted on both third-period goals in his 12th game since returning from an upper body injury suffered in the first game of the season. Boyd, Keller and Schmaltz are linemates.
“I think that line is best when they get on the forecheck,” Tourigny said. “They are the kind of guys who can read the play and always they always have the stick in the right place and can create the turnover."
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Keller’s 29 points are the most for a Coyotes player in the first 28 games of the season since had Ladislav Nagy had 30 in 2003-04. ... Islanders F Kyle Palmieri returned after missing 10 games with an upper body injury. ... Beauvillier needs one goal to reach 100 in his career. ... Islanders D Adam Pelech (upper body) was placed on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 6.
UP NEXT
Islanders: At Vegas on Saturday night for the second of a five-game trip.
Coyotes: Host Buffalo on Saturday night in the second of a three-game homestand.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Native Americans prosecuted in certain tribal courts can also be prosecuted based on the same incident in federal court, which can result in longer sentences.
The 6-3 ruling is in keeping with an earlier ruling from the 1970s that said the same about a more widely used type of tribal court.
The case before the justices involved a Navajo Nation member, Merle Denezpi, accused of rape. He served nearly five months in jail after being charged with assault and battery in what is called a Court of Indian Offenses, a court that deals exclusively with alleged Native American offenders.
Under federal law Courts of Indian Offenses can only impose sentences of generally up to a year. The man was later prosecuted in federal court and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He said the Constitution’s “Double Jeopardy” clause should have barred the second prosecution.
But the justices disagreed.
“Denezpi’s single act led to separate prosecutions for violations of a tribal ordinance and a federal statute. Because the Tribe and the Federal Government are distinct sovereigns, those” offenses are not the same, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for a majority of the court. “Denezpi’s second prosecution therefore did not offend the Double Jeopardy Clause.”
The Biden administration had argued for that result as had several states, which said barring federal prosecutions in similar cases could allow defendants to escape harsh sentences.
The case before the justices involves a tribal court system that has become increasingly rare over the last century. Courts of Indian Offenses were created in the late 1800s during a period when the federal government’s policy toward Native Americans was to encourage assimilation. Prosecutors are federal officers answerable to federal authorities, not tribal authorities.
Federal policy toward Native Americans shifted in the mid-1930s, however, to emphasize a greater respect for tribes’ native ways. As part of that, the government has encouraged tribes to create their own tribal courts, and the number of Courts of Indian Offenses has steadily decreased. Today there are five regional Courts of Indian Offenses that serve 16 tribes in Colorado, Oklahoma, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. They are generally tribes with a small number of members or limited resources. Nationwide there are more than 570 federally recognized tribes.
The court said in 1978 that the Double Jeopardy clause did not bar the federal government from prosecuting a Native person in federal court after a tribal court prosecution, so the only question for the court this time was whether the rule should be different for Courts of Indian Offenses.
In July 2017, Denezpi traveled with a female member of the Navajo Nation to Towaoc, Colorado, which is a part of the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. While there, Denezpi raped the woman.
Denezpi was first charged in a Court of Indian Offenses with assault and battery, among other things. He eventually agreed to a so-called Alford plea in the case, not admitting guilt but acknowledging that prosecutors had enough evidence that he would likely be convicted at trial. He was sentenced to time served, 140 days in jail. His prosecution in federal court followed.
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TORONTO (AP) — Danny Jansen hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 3-0 on Wednesday night.
Long after Blue Jays starter Chris Bassitt and Yankees ace Gerrit Cole exited a scoreless duel, Jansen’s fourth homer of the season came on the first pitch he saw from reliever Wandy Peralta (2-1).
Whit Merrifield reached on shortstop Anthony Volpe’s error to begin the bottom of the 10th as automatic runner Cavan Biggio advanced from second to third.
New York moved left fielder Oswaldo Cabrera into the infield, and Alejandro Kirk grounded out to shortstop before Jansen followed with his game-winning drive to left.
Toronto closer Jordan Romano (3-2) tossed one inning for the win.
Bassitt, who pitched a two-hitter against Atlanta in his previous start, went seven innings to extend his career-best scoreless streak to 27. Bassitt allowed three hits, all singles, walked one and struck out seven.
The right-hander hasn’t allowed a run since an April 30 home start against Seattle, when he gave up a grand slam in the first inning. Only Roger Clemens (33 consecutive scoreless innings in 1998) and Dave Stieb (34 straight shutout innings between 1988 and 1989) have had longer streaks for Toronto.
After first baseman Brandon Belt couldn’t handle Jose Trevino’s broken-bat flare in the seventh, Bassitt pounced on the loose ball and dove into the baseline to tag Trevino out.
Yimi Garcia replaced Bassitt in the eighth but left after issuing a two-out walk to Aaron Judge. Tim Mayza came on and walked the bases loaded before striking out Volpe, who was pinch-hitting.
Volpe redeemed himself after the first two Blue Jays reached in the bottom half, leaping to snare Kirk’s line drive and flipping to second to double off Biggio.
Batting against New York reliever Michael King, Biggio flied out to strand runners at second and third in the ninth.
Cole was pulled after back-to-back base hits to begin the seventh. Clay Holmes came on and retired the next three batters.
The first two Blue Jays hitters reached on fielding errors, including one by Cole. But the right-hander retired the next three, striking out two.
Cole allowed seven hits. He walked two and struck out six.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: RHP Luis Severino (right lat strain) will come off the injured list Sunday to start in Cincinnati, manager Aaron Boone said. … New York put reliever Ian Hamilton (strained right groin) on the 15-day IL and recalled LHP Nick Rodriguez from Triple-A.
Blue Jays: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. did not play after leaving Tuesday’s game with a sore right knee. An MRI on Wednesday revealed no structural damage. Guerrero is day-to-day. … OF Kevin Kiermaier (illness) was not available.
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The white maple leaf sign that Judge broke with his eighth-inning home run Tuesday night was repaired before Wednesday’s game. The sign, the logo of a Canadian airline, hangs on the wall of the patio bar on the second level of the outfield seating area.
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LHP Nestor Cortes (3-2, 5.53 ERA) starts for New York in the finale of the four-game series Thursday. RHP José Berríos (3-3, 4.70) goes for the Blue Jays. Berríos has a 5.14 ERA in nine career starts against the Yankees.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C., March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Congressional Medal of Honor Society welcomes Medal of Honor Recipient Paris Davis as its newest member.
Recipient Davis was awarded for his actions during the Vietnam War. Over the course of two days, Davis personally led his Special Forces troops into battle against a numerically superior enemy force, capturing many enemy soldiers and rescuing his own men under severe enemy fire, despite his own serious wounds.
Although his actions occurred nearly 60 years ago, their significance have not been diminished by the passage of time.
Davis joins a long line of individuals who have been recognized for their actions in combat since the first Medal was awarded in 1863. There have been 3,516 recipients of the Medal and 65 living today from the Korean War, Vietnam War and the Global War on Terrorism.
The Society is grateful that the values of the Medal of Honor— courage, sacrifice, honor, duty, selflessness, and integrity—continue to be fundamental parts of our national identity.
About the Congressional Medal of Honor Society
The Congressional Medal of Honor Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Medal of Honor and its Recipients, inspiring Americans, and supporting the Recipients as they connect with communities across the country. Chartered by Congress in 1958, its membership consists exclusively of those individuals who have received the Medal of Honor. There are 65 living Recipients.
The Society carries out its mission through outreach, education and preservation programs, including the Medal of Honor Museum, Congressional Medal of Honor Outreach Programs, the Congressional Medal of Honor Character Development Program, and the Congressional Medal of Honor Citizen Honors Awards for Valor and Service. The Society's programs and operations are funded by donations.
As part of Public Law 106-83, the Medal of the Honor Memorial Act, the Medal of Honor Museum, which is co-located with the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's headquarters on board the U.S.S. Yorktown at Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, was designated as one of three national Medal of Honor sites.
Learn more about the Medal of Honor and the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's initiatives at cmohs.org.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain had its warmest year on record in 2022, official figures showed Thursday, the latest evidence that climate change is transforming Europe’s weather.
The Met Office weather agency said the provisional annual average temperature in the U.K. was 10.03 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit), the highest since comparable records began in 1884. The previous record was 9.88 Celsius (49.8 Fahrenheit) set in 2014.
Met Office scientists said human activity — primarily fossil fuel emissions — has made such warm conditions vastly more likely. Britain’s 10 hottest years on record have all been since 2003.
“The results showed that recording 10C in a natural climate would occur around once every 500 years, whereas in our current climate it could be as frequently as once every three to four years,” said Met Office climate attribution scientist Nikos Christidis.
Britain is not alone. France’s average temperature was above 14 Celsius (57.2 Fahrenheit) in 2022, making it the hottest year since weather readings began in 1900. Switzerland’s meteorological service said the alpine nation’s annual average temperature of 7.4 Celsius (45,3 Fahrenheit) was “by far the highest value since measurements began in 1864.”
Spain also had its hottest year since records started in 1961, according to the national weather agency Aemet, with an average daily temperature of 15.4 Celsius (59.7 Fahrenheit). It said the four hottest years on record for the southern European country have all come since 2015.
Last year saw summer drought and heat waves across much of Europe, with the temperature in Britain rising above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for the first time on record. Norway’s Svalbard islands in the Arctic had their warmest summer in more than a century of record-keeping. The archipelago’s average temperature for June, July and August was 7.4 Celsius (45.3 Fahrenheit), the Norwegian Meteorological Institute said.
Autumn brought more heavy rain in parts of Europe, including the mountainous Italian island of Ischia, where downpours in November triggered a massive landslide that pushed cars and buildings into the sea and killed at least a dozen people.
Unlike the U.S. and Canada, which have been hit by bitter cold and snowstorms, much of Europe is experiencing unseasonably warm winter weather.
In Germany, the year ended with the warmest New Year’s Eve on record, with temperatures reaching 20 Celsius (68 Fahrenheit) in the south of the country. Belarus, Belgium, Czechia, Latvia, Poland and the Netherlands all set national record daily highs for Dec. 31 or Jan. 1.
As 2023 begins, many low and medium-altitude ski resorts in the Alps, the Pyrenees and other European ranges are suffering from a lack of snow.
In Bosnia, spring-like weather has foiled even artificial snow — either it’s too warm to make it, or it melts soon after being spat out onto the slopes. Along the slopes in Bjelasnica near Sarajevo on Wednesday, snow accumulation amounted to little more than several white patches on an otherwise grassy landscape of brown and green.
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Defendant in 2014 'Slender Man' stabbing case asks court for conditional release
WAUKESHA - Morgan Geyser returned to the courthouse Thursday for the first time since her sentencing in the Slender Man stabbing case more than four years ago.
Since 2018, Geyser, now 20, has been committed to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after being found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in the case.
Earlier this month, Geyser petitioned for conditional release from the hospital to continue her care in the community.
She appeared briefly, wearing orange jail clothing. Circuit Judge Michael Bohren, who committed Geyser for 40 years, agreed to appoint three doctors to examine Geyser over the summer and to file reports by the end of August. Another hearing would be scheduled sometime after the reports are submitted.
All three doctors — one each recommended by the defense, the state and Bohren — have previous experience in the Slender Man case. They are Deborah Collins, Kenneth Robbins and Robert Rawski.
Bohren said Stawski is no longer taking appointments, but that he would reach out to him about doing so for Geyser. If not, Bohren said he would ask Brooke Lundbohm, who also has prior experience in the case.
Assistant District Attorney Ted Szczupakiewicz appeared for the state.
Geyser spoke only briefly with her attorney, Anthony Cotton, and did not address the court before she was taken out of the courtroom to be returned Thursday to the mental health institute. She has been held at the Waukesha County Jail since Tuesday and was not doing well there, her mother Angie Geyser said.
For nearly seven years, Geyser has been getting the kind of psychiatric treatment she should have started when she was an undiagnosed schizophrenic 12-year-old. The condition was discovered during competency reviews in the early stages of the infamous case.
RELATED -- Why no help for schizophrenic girl in Slender Man stabbing?
Geyser and Anissa Weier, also 12 at the time, plotted the stabbing death of their sixth grade friend and classmate Payton Leutner in May 2014 to appease or impress Slender Man, a fictional internet character.
Leutner survived 19 stab wounds and was discovered by a passing bicyclist after she had crawled to the edge of woods at a Waukesha park where the attack occurred.
Charged as adults, the girls' case spawned international headlines and documentaries before they each pleaded guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Weier, who experts testified was not as ill as Geyser but had come under her influence, agreed to not seek release from institutional commitment for three years; Bohren granted it last year.
Weier's commitment order at sentencing was for 25 years, since she pleaded to a lesser charge than Geyser, whose plea was to attempted first-degree intentional homicide. Geyser did the actual stabbing.
Bohren committed Geyser for 40 years. Thursday was her first time appearing before him for a hearing on a release request, which by law she can petition for every six months.
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Republicans gave President Biden a late Christmas gift with their messy, drawn-out struggle to elect a House Speaker.
Biden called the drama, which finally ended with victory for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in an early Saturday morning 15th ballot, “embarrassing” and a bad look for the country. But Democratic strategists and White House officials see the House GOP’s disarray as an easy opportunity for contrast — and an issue where Biden can make political hay as he prepares a reelection campaign.
“When your foe is lighting themselves on fire, don’t hand them a hose,” said Matt Bennett, a co-founder of the centrist think tank Third Way.
“The White House keeping their distance, I think, is smart,” Bennett continued. “Say these people are irresponsible and they do not take the task of governing seriously. It’s very easy to do that with this episode. But it will allow them to do the same when they try to impeach [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas and drag Biden’s son through the mud. So it really provides amplification to the idea that anything they’re doing is irresponsible.”
The House this week saw a Speaker selection go beyond a single ballot for the first time in a century as McCarthy struggled to secure the support of a handful of GOP holdouts who denied him a majority of the chamber while Democrats stayed united behind Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). Though McCarthy eventually prevailed, the protracted fight led to days of bad headlines and optics for Republicans, and it leaves the California lawmaker with a tenuous grasp on the gavel.
Biden and other White House officials avoided throwing any lifelines to House Republicans, saying it was McCarthy’s problem to figure out. But the president has rarely missed an opportunity in recent days to remind the public of the consequences of the House GOP’s infighting.
“One, it’s embarrassing for the country. I mean, literally,” he told reporters on Wednesday. “It’s just the reality is that, you know, to … have a Congress that can’t function is just embarrassing. We’re the greatest nation in the world. How can that be?”
“And we’ve had a lot of trouble with … the attacks on our institutions already,” Biden added. “And it’s just, that’s what worries me more than anything else.”
With no members sworn in, there were no committees meeting, giving Biden and his administration a brief reprieve from Republicans’ planned investigations into sensitive issues such as the Afghanistan withdrawal, the southern border or Hunter Biden.
Members on intelligence and military panels have been unable to get classified briefings about important national security matters since they are not technically part of the new Congress yet.
Biden ran for president on a platform of restoring basic competence to the Oval Office after four tumultuous years, and White House officials have spent the last few weeks emphasizing his willingness to reach across the aisle and the lengthy list of legislation he signed during his first two years in office.
The president and his top aides have in recent days projected confidence and assured the public that the White House would be there to ensure the work of government gets done while the House GOP gets its act together.
“Here’s the thing. We hope that the House resolves this soon. It has been a couple of days now. And we have important work to do for the American people,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday. “And so, we have to get back to work here. But of course the administration is going to continue to do everything we can to ensure that the House of Reps are kept informed and have what they need.”
John Kirby, spokesperson for the National Security Council, downplayed any national security risks that might stem for members being unable to get classified briefings.
Biden, meanwhile, traveled to Kentucky this week to tout how funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law passed in 2021 would be used to upgrade a major bridge over the Ohio River. He was joined there by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), a not-so-subtle split-screen image as House lawmakers were casting yet another unsuccessful round of votes to elect a Speaker.
Democrats were publicly frustrated that Republicans prevented the House from getting to work, but they also believe it reflects the broader reality that the GOP should not be trusted by voters to govern effectively.
White House allies believe the situation only strengthened Biden’s hand at a time when attention is shifting to the 2024 presidential campaign. Biden is expected to formally announce his plan to run for reelection in the coming months, and strategists believe he can use this week’s squabbling among House Republicans to his advantage when speaking to voters.
“The only upside to all this lunacy is they’re going to show America who they are,” said Bennett, the Third Way co-founder. “When we’re faced with a seminal vote in 2024, that’s going to matter.”
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NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Barclays PLC ("Barclays" or the "Company") (NYSE: BCS) and certain of its officers, on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased, or otherwise acquired Barclays American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") between February 18, 2021, and March 25, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/bcs1.
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- Data demonstrated that a single administration of BRII-296 at 600 mg delivered a favorable pharmacokinetic profile and is safe and well-tolerated in healthy subjects
- Findings suggest BRII-296 has potential to provide a safe and effective, one-time injectable treatment option to people with PPD in an outpatient setting
- Company has identified an optimal dose regimen for BRII-296 for the upcoming Phase 2 study expected to commence by end of 2022
DURHAM, N.C. and BEIJING, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brii Biosciences Limited ("Brii Bio" or the "Company", stock code: 2137.HK), a multi-national company developing innovative therapies for diseases with significant unmet medical needs and large public health burdens, today announced top-line results from a Phase 1 study evaluating its long-acting, single-injection therapy, BRII-296, in development for the treatment of postpartum depression (PPD). These data show that a single treatment via intramuscular (IM) injection of 600 mg of BRII-296 achieved dose linearity, early drug absorption, gradual and extended release profiles without the need for dose titration or tapering, providing confidence that this dose has potential to achieve clinical efficacy in the treatment of PPD. The selected dose regimen will be evaluated in a Phase 2 clinical trial that is expected to begin this year.
BRII-296 acts as a novel gamma-aminobutyric acid A (GABAa) receptor positive allosteric modulator (PAM) with a unique long-acting formulation that does not require cessation of breastfeeding and enables the drug to be effective for weeks after the patient leaves the injection appointment. It is designed to provide a rapid, profound and sustained reduction in depressive symptoms of PPD and may offer substantial clinically meaningful advantages over currently available treatment options for PPD.
"We are encouraged by the possibility of providing a novel treatment option to the 900,000 people in the U.S. affected by postpartum depression each year in which the current standard of care is suboptimal, often requiring hospitalization, repeat therapy and daily doses of treatment," said Ji Ma, Ph.D., Vice President of Preclinical Development and Clinical Pharmacology at Brii Bio, and lead author. "These data reinforce the potential for BRII-296 to redefine the PPD treatment landscape by providing a one-time, outpatient therapy that may effectively treat a range of depressive symptoms while maintaining a favorable safety and tolerability profile, including minimal exposure to breastfed infants."
"Initial results from this study are an important step forward as we continue to advance the development of BRII-296 in a robust and thoughtfully designed Phase 2 clinical study later this year that will incorporate fundamental patient experiences and preferences," said Aleksandar Skuban, M.D., CNS Diseases Therapy Area Head of Brii Bio. "This comprehensive approach to development is critical in areas such as PPD where there are often considerable barriers to accessing care, in part because of wide-reaching social stigmas and a lack of disease awareness. This program reinforces Brii's dedication to operating at the intersection of scientific innovation and patient insights in order to inform the full spectrum of strategic development in mental health conditions such as PPD as well as our broader global public health-inspired pipeline."
Data from healthy subjects in cohorts 1-15 were presented in a poster, titled Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of BRII-296, An Extended-Release Injectable Aqueous Suspension Formulation of Brexanolone in Healthy Adult Subjects, at the International Marcé Society Conference taking place in London, United Kingdom September 19-23, 2022. The full Phase 1 dataset will be presented at a scientific meeting later this year.
About BRII-296 Phase 1 Trial
The completed open-label, Phase 1, single ascending dose study assessed the safety, tolerability and PK of BRII-296 as a single-injection treatment option for PPD in 116 subjects enrolled across 16 cohorts. Three formulation concentrations (100 mg/mL, 200 mg/mL and 300 mg/mL) were administered via one or more IM injections to healthy adults at total dose levels of 30 mg, 75 mg, 100 mg, 200 mg, 300 mg and 600 mg. In addition, oral prophylactic treatment, or local steroid administration with BRII-296 (Depo Medrol via co-injection or admix) were evaluated to manage local injection site reactions (ISRs). The local steroid administration was shown in the study to effectively manage injection site reactions (ISRs).
Of the 116 subjects, 98 subjects reported treatment emergent adverse events (TEAEs), with the majority considered drug-related and attributed to ISRs. Most ISRs were mild to moderate in severity and none lead to premature discontinuation from the study. There were no life threatening TEAEs, TEAEs leading to premature discontinuation of study, SAEs, or deaths.
About Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression (PPD) is the most common psychological condition impacting people after giving birth. Affecting approximately 900,000 birthing people in the U.S. each year, including those who have miscarried or have had a stillbirth, PPD can present significant physical and mental health risks to the mother. In fact, suicide and overdose are the leading causes of death for childbearing people in the first year following pregnancy. Some healthcare providers believe the prevalence of PPD could be at least double, given unreported and untreated cases. PPD can also have negative effects on the maternal-infant relationship and it may lead to longer-term child development problems. Despite the prevalence and societal impact of PPD, currently approved treatment options remain limited and are associated with significant disruptions to daily life, including required hospitalization, repeat therapy and daily doses of treatment.
About BRII-296
BRII-296 is a novel, single injection therapeutic candidate in development for the treatment and prevention of postpartum depression (PPD). It acts as a gamma-aminobutyric acid A (GABAa) receptor positive allosteric modulator (PAM) and is designed to provide a rapid, profound and sustained reduction in depressive symptoms of PPD with the potential to lead to greater adherence, convenience and fewer side effects compared to the current standard of care. BRII-296 will continue to be evaluated in an upcoming Phase 2 study for the treatment of PPD and is also in development for the prevention PPD.
About Brii Bio
Brii Biosciences Limited ("Brii Bio", stock code: 2137.HK) is a biotechnology company based in China and the United States committed to advancing therapies for significant infectious diseases, such as hepatitis B, COVID-19, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, multi-drug resistant (MDR) or extensive drug resistant (XDR) gram-negative infections, and other illnesses, such as the central nervous system (CNS) diseases, which have significant public health burdens in China and worldwide. For more information, visit www.briibio.com.
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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Construction of student housing at the historic People’s Park in Berkeley, California, is on hold after an appellate court ordered an injunction late Thursday, a day after protesters forced the University of California, Berkeley to halt work on the controversial project.
The temporary injunction precludes the university from demolishing and cutting down trees, but allows security fencing around the park pending a fast-tracked court resolution.
The park was founded in 1969 as part of the free speech and civil rights movement when community organizers banded together to take back a site the state and university seized under eminent domain.
Since then, the gathering space has hosted free meals, community gardening, art projects and offered shelter to homeless people. The park is owned by UC Berkeley.
The university cleared the park overnight Tuesday and installed fencing the next day after an Alameda County Superior Court judge last week ruled it could move forward with its housing plan despite local groups suing to stop it.
Protesters on Wednesday broke through an 8-foot (2-meter) chain fence and faced off with police officers standing guard. Campus police arrested seven people.
University officials say the land is needed for desperately needed student housing but opponents say they should build elsewhere.
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MILL HOLLOW, Utah (KTVX) – Professional rally driver Ken Block died in a snowmobiling accident in Utah, local officials announced Monday.
Hoonigan Industries, a media production and sports-inspired clothing company Block co-founded, also confirmed the news.
Block was 55 years old.
The Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office, along with officials from Utah State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service, responded to reports of an accident in the Mill Hollow area.
Block was driving a snowmobile on a steep slope when “the snowmobile upended, landing on top of him,” the sheriff’s office wrote.
“He was pronounced deceased at the scene from injuries sustained in the accident,” officials said.
The sheriff’s office noted that Block was riding with a group, but was alone when the accident occurred.
A legend in the racing world, Block began his career in 2005 with the Vermont SportsCar team. He formed the Monster World Rally Team in 2010, becoming the first-ever American to compete at the World Rally Championship. Block later competed in the Global RallyCross Championship from 2011 to 2015.
Outside of racing, Block co-founded DC Shoes and Hoonigan Industries. He reportedly lived in Park City, Utah, with his family.
“It’s with our deepest regrets that we can confirm that Ken Block passed away in a snowmobile accident today,” reads a statement released by Hoonigan Industries on Monday. “Ken was a visionary, a pioneer and an icon. And most importantly, a father and husband. He will be incredibly missed.”
The Utah State Medical Examiner’s Office is working to determine an official cause of death.
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VINCENT, Ala. (AP) — A racist text message sent by a police officer has prompted officials in a small Alabama town to disband their police department and fire the police chief and assistant chief.
Vincent Mayor James Latimore on Thursday confirmed that Police Chief James Srygley and Assistant Chief John L. Goss had been dismissed, al.com reported.
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office on Friday condemned the two officers’ actions and said it stands with the city “in providing emergency law enforcement related service to the citizens (of Vincent) at this time.”
In the message, which recently surfaced on social media, someone identified as “752″ texts: “What do y’all call a pregnant slave?” An unidentified recipient responds twice: “?” and “??”
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“752″ answers: “BOGO Buy one, get one free”
“This has torn this community apart. It doesn’t matter what color we are as long as we do right by people," City Councilman Corey Abrams said during Thursday's council meeting.
On Tuesday, Latimore said “appropriate action has been taken” against the officer alleged to have sent the text, though at the time he would not name the person or anyone involved.
The city's website lists three people in its department: Srygley, Goss and Officer Lee Carden.
During the council meeting, Latimore announced he had suspended the chief and assistant chief, and the council voted to end the agency. Latimer said Carden turned in his resignation via text message just hours after the city council voted to dissolve the department.
Located in central Alabama, southeast of Birmingham, Vincent has a population of just under 2,000 people. It's located in Shelby, St. Clair, and Talladega counties.
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Chick-fil-A opens ‘break room’ in NYC for delivery workers
Published: Feb. 16, 2023 at 3:41 PM EST|Updated: 25 minutes ago
(CNN) – Chick-fil-A has created a resting spot for delivery workers in New York City.
The fast food chain has built a break room for people who make deliveries for apps like Doordash, Uber Eats or Grubhub.
The upper east side storefront will be open for a few months.
The “Brake” Room features places to sit and rest, coffee and tea, restrooms, and outlets to charge mobile devices. It even has an indoor bike dock.
Delivery workers will have access to it from Feb. 16 through April 13.
The space will be available from Monday through Saturday, but will be closed on Sundays, just like Chick-fil-A.
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Jordan Wright back after one-game suspension
Was held out of UK’s win over Miami
Published: Sep. 8, 2022 at 3:53 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky’s sixth-year senior Jordan Wright is available to play Saturday when the 20th-ranked Wildcats travel to Florida.
The linebacker was held out of UK’s season opener while serving a suspension.
UK opens SEC play in Gainesville against the 12th-ranked Gators.
Wright was limited to just six games last season due to injuries. For his career, Wright has 106 tackles, 15.5 tackles for loss, 7.5 sacks, one interception and two defensive touchdowns.
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Boy, oh boy!
Sister Wives star Mykelti Brown Padron and her husband Antonio "Tony" Padron will soon be welcoming twin sons.
The couple, who wed in 2016, took to Instagram to share the news by posting a snapshot of themselves firing off blue powder poppers with their 16-month-old daughter Avalon Asa.
Mykelti noted in the Aug. 16 post, "It was the last thing we both expected for both of them to be boys."
Although they haven't settled on names for their kids, Mykelti added that she and Tony are "excited that Avalon will have two brothers to boss around."
So, when does Avalon officially become a big sister? Mykelti said that her twin boys are expected on Dec. 1, "but they're twins so really we're thinking before Thanksgiving."
Reflecting on expanding their family, the TLC star told People on Aug. 16 that she and Tony "will be very outnumbered sooner than we realize, it should be a fun adventure."
"I'm excited for all three of my kids to be so close together in age," Mykelti told the outlet. "They'll always have a friend to play with."
On June 23, the 26-year-old shared her pregnancy announcement on Instagram. At the time, she posted a photo of herself, Tony and their little girl posing with Mykelti's baby bump.
She paired the moment with a caption that read, "Tony and I definitely weren't planning this or expecting it but we're both excited for our upcoming adventure and all the chaos and love it brings."
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Pat Riley remembers just about every detail surrounding the events of Dec. 29, 1961. It was a cold night in Schenectady, New York. A little snowy, the roads a little icy. And when the bus carrying the opposing team from New York City arrived, all of Riley’s Linton High teammates peered out the window.
They saw a giant.
Long before Riley and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were winning NBA championships together as coach and player with the Showtime-era Los Angeles Lakers in the 1980s, they were opponents. Riley and Linton beat Power Memorial and Lew Alcindor — Abdul-Jabbar’s name before converting to Islam — 74-68 that night.
Abdul-Jabbar, then a 6-foot-10 freshman, was held to eight points because he spent virtually the entire game in foul trouble. He has told Riley several times over the years that Linton won because Riley’s father — a lifelong baseball man — had his umpiring friends refereeing the game.
“Which we did,” Riley acknowledges.
Riley knew it then and came to appreciate it even more years later — there were only a few ways to stop the player who would eventually spend nearly four decades as the most prolific scorer in NBA history. Abdul-Jabbar is on the verge of being passed by the Lakers’ LeBron James, the 38-year-old who was nearly nine months from being born when the unforgettable center made one of his signature sky hooks on April 5, 1984 to overtake Wilt Chamberlain and become the league’s scoring leader.
“Kareem was a guy that never had any potential. He just had greatness,” said Riley, now the president of the Miami Heat and one of the few who has worked with both Abdul-Jabbar and James. “You could see that. When you can bypass potential and you move right to greatness as a high school player, and then college and then the pros … there are very few like him. There’s a handful. Two handfuls, at the most.”
James is one of them, going from high school straight to the NBA, and now in his 20th season, he is now just 89 points away from passing Abdul-Jabbar’s record. The Lakers play Thursday in Indiana, then Saturday at New Orleans.
The most realistic target for the record-breaker is Tuesday in Los Angeles against Oklahoma City or — perhaps symbolically — next Thursday in L.A. when the Lakers play host to the Milwaukee Bucks, the team that Abdul-Jabbar started his NBA career with.
This past October, Abdul-Jabbar — on his Substack page where he discusses and offers opinion on a variety of topics, often nothing to do with sports — wrote that when James passed Kobe Bryant for No. 3 on the all-time scoring list in 2020, he “knew it was just a matter of time before he passed me too.”
Abdul-Jabbar added that every time a record is broken, all people are elevated.
“When I broke Wilt Chamberlain’s scoring record in 1984 — the year LeBron was born — it bothered Wilt, who’d had a bit of a one-sided rivalry with me since I’d started doing so well in the NBA,” he wrote. “I don’t feel that way toward LeBron. Not only will I celebrate his accomplishment, I will sing his praises unequivocally.”
The relationship between Abdul-Jabbar and James seems complicated. Abdul-Jabbar was outside of the Cleveland locker room during the 2016 Eastern Conference finals as James was jogging by; the two embraced and shared a few kind words, prompting James to discuss the respect he has for Abdul-Jabbar and others who paved the way in his postgame remarks.
Abdul-Jabbar also has lauded James “as a community leader and athlete.” But he criticized James for not doing more with his platform to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. And earlier this season, James said he has “no relationship” with Abdul-Jabbar.
There are ties that bind them, though. Both are champions. Both have worked to promote social justice and spoken out against racial inequality. Abdul-Jabbar played 20 years in the NBA; James is in Year 20. Abdul-Jabbar set the record while playing for the Lakers; James will do the same.
And If nothing else, James’ pursuit of the record may have exposed a generation or two that never saw Abdul-Jabbar play to how great he was.
“We have to always acknowledge those who come before us, those who’ve paved the way,” Lakers coach Darvin Ham said. “You think of all those points Kareem scored and he had, what, one 3-pointer? You think about all of that, and these kids get to learn about a different era. It’s high, high-level education in the game of basketball, particularly NBA basketball.”
When Abdul-Jabbar broke the record, Riley said Magic Johnson — then the Lakers’ point guard — made sure he was the one who got the assist on the play. Johnson nearly put himself back into the game against Utah in Las Vegas that night when Abdul-Jabbar was two points away.
Years later, when the Lakers from those championship teams of that era gathered in Hawaii last summer for a reunion, Abdul-Jabbar was a day late because of personal matters. The Lakers in 2022 celebrated his arrival the same way they did the record-setter in 1984.
“He felt special because he was special, because he is special,” Riley said of the man who once stood shoulder-to-shoulder alongside an embattled Muhammad Ali during the boxing champ’s legal troubles in the late 1960s, and counted Bill Russell — another basketball giant and social-change champion — as a mentor. “He was treated as the patriarch by all the players. It was a great week for him. He was engaged, came to everything we did, gave some spontaneous talks. And he’s a shy guy, but he felt very comfortable in his group.”
Riley coached Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles and later lured James to Miami for a four-year run starting in 2010. He sees in James much of what he saw in Alcindor when that bus pulled into Schenectady in 1961.
“It’s all about LeBron right now, and it should be, with his unique career and unique opportunity to do this,” Riley said. “Training, travel, personal chefs, personal trainers, all that stuff has come into play since Kareem. I hope people realize Kareem’s story as well and how different it was. He went to college for four years; LeBron came out of high school. But they both dominated from Day 1. They both turned potential into greatness from Day 1.”
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PANAMA CITY (AP) — Two U.N. groups said Thursday that the number of migrants crossing the dangerous Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama could soar to as many as 400,000 this year.
That would represent a huge increase from the 250,000 migrants estimated to have crossed the roadless, jungle-clad route in 2022.
The U.N. agencies for refugees and migration said in a report that nearly 100,000 people may have already made the crossing so far this year, six times more than in the similar period of last year.
If that trend keeps up, it could mean many more migrants seeking to reach the United States through Central America and Mexico.
The groups called it “an unprecedented movement (of people) through the Americas.”
The United States pledged its forces will assist their Colombian and Panamanian counterparts with intelligence gathering to dismantle smuggling rings operating in the Darien Gap, which is a key route for migrants heading to the U.S. from South America, a senior Biden administration official said Wednesday.
The area 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.
U.S. forces could assist in targeting smugglers for arrest and locating “stash houses” where smugglers hold migrants, the official said, without specifying whether the U.S. forces involved would be military or civilian law enforcement.
The United States, Panama and Colombia had announced Tuesday an ambitious 60-day campaign to shut down the Darien Gap route.
The official said the 60-day period had not started yet and was still under consideration, but the effort is part of a broader campaign to prepare for the end of pandemic-era restrictions on applying for asylum at the U.S. border set to expire May 11.
The same obstacles that make it a treacherous crossing for migrants will make it impossible for authorities to completely cut off. It is about 60 miles of roadless dense jungle used by organized criminal groups for smuggling drugs and people.
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Looking back 150 years at the three men who helped established Hutchinson
Multiple people from Hutchinson helped to establish its 150-year history. Several were known as city founders.
From C. C. Hutchinson founding the town in 1871 to Frank Colladay beginning a century-old hardware company, many members of the early Hutchinson community created a city to last.
"(Hutchinson) wasn't worried about just establishing a town as quick as he possibly could — he was interested in setting up a town that was going to continue to grow without having growing pains," said Reno County Museum chief curator David Reed.
Frank Colladay
In 1885, Colladay arrived in Hutchinson on the Santa Fe Railroad. He was heading to California, but after stepping off the train car, he decided to remain in Kansas and establish a company.
Colladay began a hardware retail store at 16 N. Main St. in Hutchinson in 1888. He named it Frank Colladay Hardware.
"He was able to expand his reach far beyond the county and saw the demands of what the state was going to need as far as materials and tools," Reed said. "The things that a growing population was going to need to help establish themselves."
According to the Reno County Museum's archives, Colladay sold general hardware, stoves, sheet metals, sporting goods, cutlery, horse saddles and accessories and manufactured a full line of harnesses and straps for farm work.
He expanded into Texas and New Mexico, sending his sales team across state lines.
More:Buildings that shaped Hutchinson's future, business, housing and transportation
Emerson Carey
According to a biography written by Teresa Chansler in 1974, Carey began his business in Hutchinson with a coal mining company in partnership with a man known as R. E. Conn in 1885. By 1887, the company changed to Carey, Beers and Lee.
Carey and his business partners grew Carey, Beers and Lee for three years until 1890.
Frequent land trades in Hutchinson caused a land collapse, straining local banks and driving wheat prices up to 30 cents a bushel .
"Right there, I learned my first real business lesson. It was: never borrow money to buy something you don't need," Carey stated in the biography. "In 1890, I got my second lesson. It was this: Remember that, nine times out of 10, a poor man cannot afford to pay interest."
More:Celebrate Hutchinson's 150th birthday at the mile-long block party downtown on Aug. 18
After selling his properties to pay off his debts, Carey recovered and began his next business, an ice manufacturing company.
The business began in 1895, but Carey quickly turned to salt several years later.
The Santa Fe Railroad and two other rail lines in Hutchinson aided Carey with his business, utilizing it for trade and shipments across the state.
Carey began Carey Salt Company in May 1901, according to Willard Welsh's 1946 book "Hutchinson, a Prairie City in Kansas," despite threats from the other salt companies that were already established in Hutchinson.
He utilized the profits from his coal and ice manufacturing businesses to keep Carey Salt Company afloat — today, it continues in the exact location of Strataca in Hutchinson.
More:Hutchinson residents can be part of the city's 150th birthday photo in downtown this month
C. C. Hutchinson
Hutchinson, the city's namesake, visited its soon to be location on the Arkansas River in the summer of 1871. He was a Santa Fe Railroad Company surveyor.
According to literature by Fred Henney in a pamphlet titled "The Hutchinson Story" from 1950, Hutchinson created the city's first draft.
"Hutchinson made a rough draft of a townsite not quite one-mile square. A wide Main Street was intersected at the center by a street to be called Sherman, after a lovely Vermont girl, Gertrude Sherman," Henney wrote. "Two years later, she became Mr. Hutchinson's wife."
Reed said that Hutchinson aimed to create a prohibition city, so he banned saloons in town, trying to rid it of criminals.
According to Welsh, Hutchinson and earlier settlers wanted to create a city founded on peace so the town could grow without the hindrances of crime.
"He saw the potential where the town was, which is why I think he fought so hard for it to become the county seat," Reed said.
One and a half centuries later, Hutchinson continues to thrive.
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This exciting new restaurant concept featuring crepes and waffles is opening soon in Downtown Doral
DORAL, Fla., Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sweet Paris Crêperie & Café, the ultra-popular restaurant brand specializing in sweet and savory crêpes, hot drinks and more, will open its first ever location in Florida at Downtown Doral, 5335 Northwest 87th Ave. on Monday, December 5th.
Founded in 2012 by Allison and Ivan Chavez, Sweet Paris has quickly become one of the hottest restaurant franchises in the country with its Instagram-worthy, French-inspired interiors and delicious food and drinks made of the highest quality ingredients and bold flavors. The duo met as undergraduate students at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and bonded over a love for crêpes, soon making it their mission to "Revive the Art of Eating Crêpes" and traveling the world in search of flavors and new ways to bring this popular street food to market. Made from scratch, the dishes are as delicious as they are beautiful.
"Our mission from day one has been to revive the art of eating crêpes, and we could not be more thrilled to see the expansion of Sweet Paris into the state of Florida," said Allison Chavez.
Sweet Paris in Doral is owned and operated by local entrepreneurs Antonio Arizpe and Ivette Escobar. Originally from Mexico, Ivette began her career in marketing for a cosmetics company in Los Angeles. In 2012, she started her journey working with the corporate team at Sweet Paris as the Chief Development Officer, leading the opening of 9 stores for the company. Antonio, originally from Mexico as well, studied International Affairs and worked for the Mexican consulate in Houston, then found a career in residential construction. In 2021, the couple decided to sign a multi-unit deal and own their own Sweet Paris locations in Florida.
"After working the corporate side of Sweet Paris for so many years and fully learning the brand, opening a café of my own was a no-brainer," said Ivette. "We have a passion for food and love the culture that Sweet Paris has created with its employees and franchisees over the years – plus, being a part of the brand's continued nationwide growth is a huge deal for us. We completely trust the brand and are excited to bring the first location to the Miami area." Allison agrees. "We couldn't ask for a better Strategic Partner than Ivette. Watching her grow from her position at the corporate office to owning her own Sweet Paris location makes me so proud."
The ongoing expansion of Sweet Paris will bring the total store count to 25 locations in the near future, with 15 stores currently in various stages of development in Texas, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Florida. A second location in the Miami area will open in The Plaza at Coral Gables in early 2023.
The recent success of Sweet Paris has not gone unnoticed as the brand was recently ranked on Entrepreneur Magazine's 2022 Top New and Emerging Franchises. The brand also made history when it secured a place on Entrepreneur's esteemed Franchise 500® list for the first time in January. Also, co-founders Allison and Ivan Chavez recently landed on Global Franchise Magazine's 10 Emerging Leaders to Watch in 2022, and Allison was included in Nation's Restaurant News' annual Power List, an exclusive group of 50 leaders who are identified as the most innovative and inspiring people in the restaurant industry.
The community is encouraged to join in the celebration of the new location on December 5th and sign up for the Sweet Paris Passport to receive exclusive monthly promotions, a birthday bonus, collect points and use them for purchase, receive texts regarding upcoming giveaways, and bonus entries for giveaways. A grand opening celebration is planned for December 15th, where customers of the Doral location will receive a double entry to the giveaway if they sign up for the Sweet Passport rewards program during the Grand Opening.
Sweet Paris Doral will open Sunday - Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday - Saturday from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. For more information on Sweet Paris in Doral, please visit www.sweetparis.com or call 305-200-3970.
ABOUT SWEET PARIS:
Sweet Paris Crêperie & Café is a fast-growing restaurant franchise specializing in sweet and savory crêpes, waffles, salads, hot drinks and more. On a mission to "Revive the Art of Eating Crêpes" one crêperie at a time, Sweet Paris is seeking qualified Strategic Partners, especially those with a background in hospitality, to expand the concept in new markets. For more information about the brand, please visit www.sweetparis.com, and for more information on Strategic Partnership Opportunities, visit www.sweetparisfranchise.com.
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CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Lesser prairie chickens once numbered in the thousands throughout the American West, thriving on the prairielands of eastern New Mexico and the American West.
But in recent years, the chicken’s numbers declined amid growing development in the oil and gas and agriculture sectors throughout the region and conservationists worried the unique bird could be in danger of extinction.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed federal protections for the species last year under the Endangered Species Act, seeking an endangered listing for the bird in southeast New Mexico and West Texas and a threatened listing in the rest of the animal’s range which extends through Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas.
A species is considered “endangered” by the agency when its extinction is believed imminent, while “threatened” means the animal could soon warrant endangered status.
Both statuses results in the federal government developing a recovery plan and setting aside acreage deemed “critical habitat” of the species at risk.
A final decision on the lesser prairie chicken’s listing was expected this month, records show, and it could restrict access to lands needed for the chicken’s recovery and impact some of New Mexico’s biggest industries, the Carlsbad Current-Argus reported.
That’s why conservation bank Lesser prairie chickens Conservation proposed a habitat conservation plan for the oil and gas industry. It was approved by the Fish and Wildlife Service on June 3.
It would allow oil and gas operations to occur within areas where the chicken could dwell.
Energy companies buy protections from the conservation bank for the areas known as “strongholds,” while conducting certain conservation practices on the lands amid their operations, and in exchange are exempted from future restrictions should the species ultimately be listed.
They receive a permit for “incidental take” which refers to a number of birds that are allowed to be killed during development.
The intention, said LPC Conservation Chief Executive Officer Wayne Walker, is to save the animal in danger of dying out while also allowing essential economic drivers to continue.
That balance, he said, is essential as it enlists the help of companies that hold large swaths of land.
“We believe using a market-based business model is the best way to secure the desired outcomes for all involved to finally deliver quantifiable conservation benefits to the (the bird),” he said. “The species is a key indicator of the health of the southern Great Plains. LPC Conservation offers a legally defensible permit that should be of interest to this industry.”
The Fish and Wildlife Service said in a statement that enrollees would be able to avoid future regulatory shifts while helping to conserve the bird.
The agency also published an environmental assessment in May that showed take permits would impact up to 500,000 acres of chicken habitat in all five states — 200,000 acres in the southern population segment in New Mexico and Texas and 300,000 acres in the northern population.
When implemented, the agency estimates the plan would lead to the restoration and continued management of up to a million acres of chicken habitat.
This would have “no significant impact” on the environment or human activity, per a report from the Fish and Wildlife Service, and no further analysis was needed.
“For more than two decades, we have prioritized efforts with our partners to employ all available tools to facilitate the conservation of the lesser prairie-chicken,” the statement read. “Working with others is essential to protecting ecosystems that benefit wildlife and economies.”
Locally, Carlsbad-based conservation non-profit CEHMM (The Center for Excellence) reported it undertook several projects to protect the lesser prairie chicken in early 2022.
CEHMM offers conservation agreements also approved by the Fish and Wildlife Service for private and public lands.
Similar to the habitat conservation plan, enrollees agree to conservation practices to avoid future regulatory burdens if a listing is approved.
CEHMM reported it did not yet find any leks, or prairie chicken breeding grounds, during a week-long survey conducted March 23, per its report for the first quarter of 2022 published last month.
The oil and gas industry so far enrolled 508,737 acres within the bird’s occupied range in New Mexico in CEHMM’s program, per the report, while 891,293 acres were enrolled by ranchers and another 348,551 acres were enrolled by the New Mexico State Land Office.
That means about 1.2 million acres were enrolled in total, just more than half of the 2.1 million acres CHEMM identified as the bird’s occupied range.
Johnathan Hayes, executive director of the southwest region for the Audubon Society, said that effort to conserve the bird while protecting local industry was crucial to ensure local communities are impacted as little as possible by government decision-making.
He said the Society supports the chicken’s listing, but hopes plans like LPC Conservation’s and others will provide economic support amid conservation efforts.
“The listing decision is the right way to go, but we’re recognizing that that does have a cost,” Hayes said. “We want to make sure the negative impact that happens to industry, that we’re allowing industry to have some ability to predict what those regulations will be and what that impact will be.”
Hayes said work to save the bird could also restore the land and ecosystem, supporting the broader environment from human impacts to climate change.
“Birds are the canary in the coal mine. This is a good example of us seeing the loss of suitable habitat that is driving the decline of these birds is absolutely an impact we’ve had on the landscape, the climate,” he said.
“This isn’t just about the bird.”
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Itching for some horror? A decent selection of classics and classics in waiting are available on Prime Video, from World War Z to The Silence of the Lambs. Dim the lights, grab the popcorn and let the nightmares begin.
These horror flicks are the very best Prime Video has to offer.
Candyman (2021)
Jordan Peele and Nia DaCosta are at the helm of this gripping slasher. A sequel to the 1992 film of the same name, Candyman tackles issues such as gentrification and police brutality. Prepare for blood, swarming bees and people making the unfortunate decision to recite Candyman's name in front of a mirror.
World War Z (2013)
World War Z explored the ramifications of a worldwide disease all the way back in 2013, but in this case the affliction turned sufferers into mindless zombies. Starring Brad Pitt as a former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane, the film follows the spread and potential cure of this widespread zombie plague.
Suspiria (2018)
If you like your horror films interspersed with a bit of contemporary dance (and who wouldn't!) then Suspiria is definitely the one for you. It tells the story of a supernatural dance academy run by a coven of witches and features themes like motherhood, guilt and abuse of power. An homage to the original 1977 film, Suspiria stars Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Jodie Foster interviews Anthony Hopkins' evil Hannibal Lecter in this classic psychological thriller. Foster plays FBI agent Clarice Starling, who's determined to bring down a killer. It's the only horror movie ever to win a best picture Oscar, and also won for best director, screenplay, actor (Hopkins) and actress (Foster) in 1992.
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
The sequel to John Krasinski's runaway hit, A Quiet Place Part II revisits the Abbott family as they're forced to leave their home and travel into the unknown. With a brand new baby in tow, the journey is perilous and tense, as younger members of the family have to step up and take the lead.
Open Water (2003)
If it easily sends a shiver down your spine to imagine being stranded in the middle of the ocean and at the mercy of whatever unseen creatures lie below, you should check out the survival horror thriller Open Water. A day of scuba diving plunges a couple into a horrifying situation: Their tour boat accidentally leaves them behind in the middle of the sea. The harrowing film only spans 80 minutes and is loosely inspired by the real disappearance of two divers.
Coherence (2014)
Coherence is a huge favorite here at CNET and it's a terrifying watch. Not necessarily in the traditional, gory, horrific sense but more in terms of the concepts. It's a multiverse movie released before multiverses were cool and it's not what you expect. Coherence is the kind of movie you'll finish and immediately rewatch to try and rewire your brain. It's a fantastic achievement. A must watch.
Train To Busan (2016)
If you're looking for a seriously impressive zombie film, look no further. Train To Busan is an action horror about a family stuck on a train amidst a horrifying zombie outbreak. Not only is it gripping and intense, it's also surprisingly human for a movie about zombies. Well worth a watch!
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
6-0-8-0
(six, zero, eight, zero)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
6-0-8-0
(six, zero, eight, zero)
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SEATTLE — Prosecutors and judges across the state are preparing for the state’s new drug possession law to go into effect on July 1.
That includes Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison. She along with Councilmembers Sara Nelson and Alex Pedersen are proposing legislation that would change the city’s code and bring Seattle in compliance with state law. The proposal will also give Davison the authority to prosecute drug possession and public drug use cases.
“I am the misdemeanor prosecutor for the City of Seattle. That's why the voters put me here,” Davison said.
“If it doesn’t happen, then it will essentially legalize drug use in the City of Seattle and that’s not what I think most people are wanting to see,” Davison said.
According to the Seattle City Attorney’s Office, there were 589 overdose deaths in Seattle in 2022, up 72% from 2021.
“It also is really important to see that this is where we can meaningfully intervene with people and make sure that we are getting people into treatment and recovery. That is the goal of everything we're doing in this space,” Davison said.
That’s the goal of the state too. The new state drug possession law creates a system for pre-trial diversion programs meant to keep people out of jail and in treatment.
Davison said the city has programs already available and is looking into expanding.
Prosecutors have the final say on who goes into the diversion programs, but according to the law, prosecutors are strongly encouraged to.
“I think we’re pretty well equipped to handle an influx of cases,” said Judge Jeffrey Smith, president-elect for Washington District and Municipal Court Judges Association.
Smith said there are 60 therapeutic courts already in place and vary with some focusing on mental health or veterans.
“We already see a lot of folks who are dealing with drug issues in our therapeutic courts as it is today,” said Smith.
The court monitors a person’s treatment and compliance, Judge Smith who oversees mental health and DUI court in Spokane said.
“The basic philosophy of the therapeutic court is that it is a problem-solving court.
The whole purpose of a therapeutic court is to get to the root of the problem, and help them become the best version of themselves and be successful long term,” said Smith.
The state’s drug possession law goes into effect July 1. The Seattle City Council will vote on proposed legislation on June 6.
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It’s been over a year since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. World leaders have condemned Russia’s actions and in March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin for war crimes related to the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
So the news came as a surprise for many when they heard Russia was ascending to a leadership position within the United Nations. One reader reached out to VERIFY to ask if this means Putin is now the president of the U.N.
THE QUESTION
Has Vladimir Putin become president of the United Nations?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, Vladimir Putin has not become president of the United Nations.
WHAT WE FOUND
Russia is assuming a month-long, rotating United Nations Security Council leadership role that is required by the Security Council’s rules. The position is administrative, and does not allow Russia to implement any changes without the rest of the Security Council’s approval. Russia is not becoming the leader of the entire U.N. The U.N. is led by Secretary-General António Guterres of Portugal.
There are 15 members of the Security Council, five of which are permanent. The United States, the United Kingdom, France, China and Russia, which inherited the position from the Soviet Union, are the Security Council’s five permanent members.
The Security Council’s rules of procedure stipulate that the council’s presidency, or presiding country, changes between its members each month based on the English alphabetical order of the member countries’ names.
The U.N. Security Council has a public schedule listing the council’s president for each month of 2023. Mozambique was the Security Council president in March, Russia is the Security Council president in April and Switzerland will hold the position in May.
Vladimir Putin does not represent Russia in the U.N. Security Council. Vassily Nebenzia, a diplomat of the USSR and now Russia, is the country’s permanent Security Council representative, according to the Russian U.N. Mission and the U.N. Nebenzia therefore serves as president of the Security Council when Russia’s turn comes up.
The Security Council exists “to maintain international peace and security” in accordance with the U.N. Charter. This can include agreeing to take military action against an aggressor and calling on the rest of the U.N. to impose economic sanctions to pressure an aggressive nation. All Security Council decisions are decided based on vote, and each of its five permanent members has the power to veto a decision.
The president of the Security Council presides over meetings, sets meeting agendas, represents the Security Council and can call meetings at any time they deem necessary. The president cannot force the Security Council to act or make decisions independently.
Russia is using its month as president of the Security Council to set an agenda favorable to its war. The country plans to host a meeting arguing for its policy of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia, hold a debate about exporting weapons and military equipment to other countries and hold another debate on the defense of a “new multipolar world order,” Nebenzia said in a press conference.
The U.K.’s U.N. delegation has criticized Russia’s agenda given the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that reform of the U.N. Security Council is “clearly overdue.” He said that countries like Russia, which he called a terrorist state, must not preside anywhere.
Nebenzia will not be able to force the rest of the Security Council to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or force the rest of the Security Council to stop supporting Ukraine’s defense. Nebenzia will also be unable to force the rest of the U.N. to act as he wishes.
The Secretary-General is the leader of the U.N. as a whole, the U.N. website explains. Guterres took office in 2017. There have been eight previous Secretaries-General, usually serving 10 years at a time each.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — MJ Melendez homered for the second straight day, the Royals bullpen pitched five innings of two-hit ball and Kansas City beat the fast-fading Minnesota Twins 5-2 on Wednesday night to put a positive finish on a difficult day.
The Royals clinched their first winning series in nearly a month just hours after owner John Sherman fired longtime front office executive Dayton Moore, who led the franchise to two American League pennants and a World Series title.
Daniel Lynch allowed two runs on four hits over four shaky innings before giving way to the Kansas City bullpen, which was solid for the second consecutive night. Anthony Misiewicz (1-1) and three other relievers got the ball to Scott Barlow, pitched around an error in the ninth for his second save in as many nights and 23rd on the year.
Bailey Ober (1-3) allowed three runs on seven hits and a walk over five innings for Minnesota, which was in an AL Central race two weeks ago but has lost six of seven to begin an eight-game trip that's dashed its playoff hopes.
The Royals opened the game the same way they finished the previous night: with production at the top of the order.
Melendez, who hit a two-run homer in the series opener, homered leading off the game for the third time this season, driving a 3-1 pitch an estimated 437 feet to center field. And after Bobby Witt Jr. reached on a base hit, Salvador Perez blooped an RBI double to right that was sneakily reminiscent of his two-out, go-ahead double on Tuesday night.
Minnesota got one back in the second on Matt Wallner's base hit, and when the Royals answered on Edward Oliveras' two-out single in the third, the Twins again closed within a run thanks in part to a two-bag error by Vinnie Pasquantino.
That was it for the Twins, though, because the stars of the night came out of the Kansas City bullpen.
Collin Snider worked around a two-on, no-out jam in the fifth. Misiewicz retired four of the five he faced in the sixth and seventh. Dylan Coleman handled the rest of the seventh and the first two outs of the eighth. And Amir Garrett finished that one off before Barlow wrapped up the Twins' 13th loss in their last 16 games.
MORE ON MOORE
Moore said farewell to the Royals during brief remarks at Kauffman Stadium earlier Wednesday and spent an emotional few minutes visiting with players in the clubhouse. Many of them acknowledged the somberness of the moment. Moore had led the organization for the past 16 years as general manager and president of baseball operations.
“He's such a great guy. A great person,” Perez said. “I just old him, ‘Thank you for everything.’ I love him."
UP NEXT
RHP Josh Winder (4-4, 4.17 ERA) will face Kansas City for the first time in the final game of the road trip for Minnesota on Thursday. Royals RHP Jonathan Heasley (3-8, 5.09) will try to build on 6 2/3 scoreless innings in his last start at Boston.
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NEW YORK, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FatBrain AI (LZG International, Inc., OTCQB: LZGI) (the "Company," or "we"), the leader in powerful and easy-to-use AI solutions for the enterprise stars of tomorrow, is gaining record revenues. The Company expects Q4 growth, ending May 31, 2023, to exceed the 130% average quarterly growth the company achieved during the first three quarters of its fiscal year. FatBrain AI's fast growth is continuing, and the Company projects to beat its calendar revenue guidance of $72MM.
The Company has validated its AI 2.0 solutions and technologies with leading organizations, including Bank of America, Comcast, IBM, Pilgrim's Pride, and Samsung, to name a few. It is now bringing its AI 2.0 solutions to small and medium size businesses (SMEs) worldwide.
FatBrain caters specifically to SME's, which make up over 90% of all businesses. The company helps SMEs simplify decision-making and empowers them to harness big data and AI to grow, protect and optimize their businesses. FatBrain offers a comprehensive suite of solutions that plug into clients' unique data signals from existing software-as-a-service (SaaS) products like Quickbooks, Shopify, Salesforce, Slack and Hubspot, as well as seventy-four other applications. It then aligns these data signals with millions of relevant, dynamic market indicators. Together, this collection of signals and indicators is then processed by FatBrain's AI 2.0 SaaS engine into peer-intelligence with actionable insights. This automated process allows companies to make complex decisions efficiently and quickly – realizing outcomes to protect, predict and increase cash flows.
FatBrain also offers RansomProof SaaS featuring AI automation with daily impact to secure businesses' systems and data to ensure business operations are protected. RansomProof SaaS is free forever to SMEs because the company believes in leveling the playing field between big businesses and SMEs.
"FatBrain AI continues to gain new customers every day while securing additional revenue sources. We currently have large pipeline of customers and acquisition candidates that project multiplying our revenue several fold," stated Peter B. Ritz, co-founder and CEO of FatBrain AI.
About FatBrain AI (LZG International, Inc., OTCQB:LZGI):
FatBrain AI provides powerful and easy-to-use AI solutions to empower the enterprise stars of tomorrow to grow, innovate, and drive the majority of the global economy. FatBrain's AI 2.0 technologies and advanced data services transform continuous learning, narrative reasoning, large language models, cloud, blockchain and Web3 technologies into auditable, explainable and easy to integrate AI solutions. FatBrain's subscriptions allow all companies to deploy its advanced AI solutions quickly, easily, and securely behind their firewalls or via cloud. FatBrain's global delivery includes 600-strong team across design, development centers in the US, UK, India, and Kazakh Republic.
For more information, please visit: https://www.fatbrain.ai
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1. Building/Zoning Department
Reminder: the public sidewalk in front of your home or business is your responsibility to maintain and to keep clear of all debris, including ice and snow.
Deteriorating or “sinking” sidewalks causing an elevation change of one-half inch need to be repaired to eliminate any trip hazard. You may grind the offending “lip” or replace the section(s) in violation with new sections. Questions? Call the Building Dept. at 208-398-2095.
2. Fire Department
The internet is full of ideas. One that we recently found was refilling disposable 1# propane tanks from a larger non-disposable tank. These disposable 1# tanks are NOT meant to be refilled. The valves inside are inadequate for refilling and have a high degree failing when filled a second time.
This operation possesses a significant fire and explosion hazard. Being on the internet does not mean its correct or safe.
3. Library
From our State Librarian Stephanie Bailey-White, to Alyce Kelley: “I received this lovely note from a good friend of mine and wanted to share it with you …
“We visited my parents yesterday. My dad has been losing his vision the past couple years… it’s become really difficult for him to read lately (and he loves to read). The folks at the Emmett Public Library hooked him up with the Idaho Talking Book Service. What a game changer. He was so excited to show me the player and how the program works with the sending/receiving of cartridges— like a kid with a new toy. -Thanks to you and your team for all you do to provide services like this - definitely a quality-of-life impact.”
Service is how we became Idaho’s Public Library of the Year. We are here to serve you.
4. Police Department
Do you LOVE local news? Get Local News Headlines in your inbox daily.
The Emmett Police Department provides a Ride-Along Program for those who are interested in finding out first-hand what it is like to be an Emmett Police Officer. If you’re interested, please pick up a ride waiver at the Emmett Police Department Monday – Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
5. Public Works Department
Public works is excavating for a new pavilion in the city park. This is being paid for through the Lion’s Club and built by an Eagle Scout.
The Splash Pad is underway and should be ready for concrete on Aug 8th.
6. Systems Administration (IT)
Preconstruction plans for joint trench are under way for the Dagger Falls subdivision.
Working with other utilities to install our fiber optics in a coordinated effort ensures that our Dig Once policy is being utilized for efficiency and cost savings.
7. City Clerk
The new on-line payment system is off to a great start.
But here’s a reminder: there is another no-cost option for you. We will set your account for a DIRECT PAYMENT right here in our office for FREE! Contact us for details.
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Putin bestows friendship award on actor Steven Seagal
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday bestowed a state decoration on Steven Seagal, the American action-movie actor who also holds Russian citizenship.
The awarding of the Order of Friendship was announced on the Russian government’s internet portal. The order recognizes people who Russia considers to have contributed to bettering international relations.
Seagal was a vocal supporter of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and last year visited the Russian-held Ukrainian town of Olenivka, where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were reportedly killed in an attack for which Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other.
Seagal was named in 2018 as a Russian Foreign Ministry humanitarian envoy to the United States and Japan.
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By HARM VENHUIZEN (Associated Press/Report for America)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Lawmakers in several states are embracing legislation to let children work in more hazardous occupations, for more hours on school nights and in expanded roles, including serving alcohol in bars and restaurants as young as 14.
The efforts to significantly roll back labor rules are largely led by Republican lawmakers to address worker shortages and, in some cases, run afoul of federal regulations.
Child welfare advocates worry the measures represent a coordinated push to scale back hard-won protections for minors.
“The consequences are potentially disastrous,” said Reid Maki, director of the Child Labor Coalition, which advocates against exploitative labor policies. “You can’t balance a perceived labor shortage on the backs of teen workers.”
Lawmakers proposed loosening child labor laws in at least 10 states over the past two years, according to a report published last month by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. Some bills became law, while others were withdrawn or vetoed.
Legislators in Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa are actively considering relaxing child labor laws to address worker shortages, which are driving up wages and contributing to inflation. Employers have struggled to fill open positions after a spike in retirements, deaths and illnesses from COVID-19, decreases in legal immigration and other factors.
The job market is one of the tightest since World War II, with the unemployment rate at 3.4% — the lowest in 54 years.
Bringing more children into the labor market is, of course, not the only way to solve the problem. Economists point to several other strategies the country can employ to alleviate the labor crunch without asking kids to work more hours or in dangerous settings.
The most obvious is allowing more legal immigration, which is politically divisive but has been a cornerstone of the country’s ability to grow for years in the face of an aging population. Other strategies could include incentivizing older workers to delay retirement, expanding opportunities for formerly incarcerated people and making child-care more affordable, so that parents have greater flexibility to work.
In Wisconsin, lawmakers are backing a proposal to allow 14-year-olds to serve alcohol in bars and restaurants. If it passed, Wisconsin would have the lowest such limit nationwide, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
The Ohio Legislature is on track to pass a bill allowing students ages 14 and 15 to work until 9 p.m. during the school year with their parents’ permission. That’s later than federal law allows, so a companion measure asks the U.S. Congress to amend its own laws.
Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, students that age can only work until 7 p.m. during the school year. Congress passed the law in 1938 to stop children from being exposed to dangerous conditions and abusive practices in mines, factories, farms and street trades.
Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law in March eliminating permits that required employers to verify a child’s age and a parent’s consent. Without work permit requirements, companies caught violating child labor laws can more easily claim ignorance.
Sanders later signed separate legislation raising civil penalties and creating criminal penalties for violating child labor laws, but advocates worry that eliminating the permit requirement makes it significantly more difficult to investigate violations.
Other measures to loosen child labor laws have been passed into law in New Jersey, New Hampshire and Iowa.
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law last year allowing teens aged 16 and 17 to work unsupervised in child care centers. The state Legislature approved a bill this month to allow teens of that age to serve alcohol in restaurants. It would also expand the hours minors can work. Reynolds, who said in April she supports more youth employment, has until June 3 to sign or veto the measure.
Republicans dropped provisions from a version of the bill allowing children aged 14 and 15 to work in dangerous fields including mining, logging and meatpacking. But it kept some provisions that the Labor Department says violate federal law, including allowing children as young as 14 to briefly work in freezers and meat coolers, and extending work hours in industrial laundries and assembly lines.
Teen workers are more likely to accept low pay and less likely to unionize or push for better working conditions, said Maki, of the Child Labor Coalition, a Washington-based advocacy network.
“There are employers that benefit from having kind of docile teen workers,” Maki said, adding that teens are easy targets for industries that rely on vulnerable populations such as immigrants and the formerly incarcerated to fill dangerous jobs.
The Department of Labor reported in February that child labor violations had increased by nearly 70% since 2018. The agency is increasing enforcement and asking Congress to allow larger fines against violators.
It fined one of the nation’s largest meatpacking sanitation contractors $1.5 million in February after investigators found the company illegally employed more than 100 children at locations in eight states. The child workers cleaned bone saws and other dangerous equipment in meatpacking plants, often using hazardous chemicals.
National business lobbyists, chambers of commerce and well-funded conservative groups are backing the state bills to increase teen participation in the workforce, including Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political network and the National Federation of Independent Business, which typically aligns with Republicans.
The conservative Opportunity Solutions Project and its parent organization, Florida-based think tank Foundation for Government Accountability, helped lawmakers in Arkansas and Missouri draft bills to roll back child labor protections, The Washington Post reported. The groups, and allied lawmakers, often say their efforts are about expanding parental rights and giving teenagers more work experience.
“There’s no reason why anyone should have to get the government’s permission to get a job,” Republican Arkansas Rep. Rebecca Burkes, who sponsored the bill to eliminate child work permits, said on the House floor. “This is simply about eliminating the bureaucracy that is required and taking away the parent’s decision about whether their child can work.”
Margaret Wurth, a children’s rights researcher with Human Rights Watch, a member of the Child Labor Coalition, described bills like the one passed in Arkansas as “attempts to undermine safe and important workplace protections and to reduce workers’ power.”
Current laws fail to protect many child workers, Wurth said.
She wants lawmakers to end exceptions for child labor in agriculture. Federal law allows children 12 and older to work on farms for any amount of time outside of school hours, with parental permission. Farm workers over 16 can work at dangerous heights or operate heavy machinery, hazardous tasks reserved for adult workers in other industries.
Twenty-four children died from work injuries in in 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Around half of deadly work incidents happened on farms, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office covering child deaths between 2003 and 2016.
“More children die working in agriculture than in any other sector,” Wurth said. “Enforcement isn’t going to help much for child farm workers unless the standards improve.”
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Harm Venhuizen 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. Follow Venhuizen on Twitter.
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Which aerator shoes are best for fall lawn care?
If you’ve been properly watering, weeding and fertilizing your lawn yet it still doesn’t look bright green and healthy, it may be because your soil isn’t properly aerated. Hard, compacted soil doesn’t allow the water and fertilizer to get down to the roots where it is needed.
There are many ways to aerate your lawn and break up thatch, but if you have a small property, aerator shoes are one of the best. When choosing aerator shoes, it is important to look for a pair with a sturdy strap system like the one featured in Leweio Lawn Aerator Shoes. This helps ensure they stay securely in place throughout the entire job.
What to know before you buy aerator shoes
Why lawns need aeration
Anyone who has ever tried to maintain a lawn knows that keeping it green and healthy is no simple task. It needs proper watering and adequate fertilizer, but just a bit too much or too little of either can result in grass that doesn’t grow well or dies off.
Over time, the soil gets compacted from people walking on it, heavy rains and various other reasons. Additionally, thatch from mowing and other sources can build up on top of the soil. Together, these two factors can result in a nearly impenetrable layer that stops water, oxygen and fertilizer from getting down to the roots of your grass. Periodically aerating your lawn breaks up this impenetrable layer so your grass can get the nutrients, oxygen and water it needs.
When and how often to aerate your lawn
Most experts recommend aerating your lawn at least once a year. That said, some lawns need more frequent aeration, while others can go for two or three years before requiring it. Some signs that your lawn may need aeration include a spongy feeling when you press on the grass, water pooling up after rains rather than quickly draining away and dying patches of grass that won’t grow even with regular watering.
You can aerate your lawn at any time without harming it, but you’ll get the most benefit from doing it during the peak growing season. This is early spring or fall for cool-season grasses and late spring or early summer for hot-season grasses.
What to look for in quality aerator shoes
Aerator shoe straps
One of the most important aspects of aerator shoes are the straps. If the straps aren’t sturdy or tend to loosen up as you work, they will allow the shoes to slip, which can potentially be dangerous. The wider and thicker the straps or the more there are, the better they will secure the shoes in place on your feet.
Aerator shoe buckles vs. velcro
Straps on aerator shoes are generally tightened in place through the use of buckles or Velcro. The latter is easier to don and remove quickly. It also tends to have better holding power. However, buckles can sometimes loosen up as you work, so you may want to avoid them.
How to keep lawn aerator shoes from slipping off
As an additional safeguard against your foot slipping around as you walk, some aerator shoes have a textured footbed which adds some traction.
Aerator spike reinforcement
On many aerator shoes, the spikes are secured to the plastic footbed. While this is often sufficient, it can lead to the shoes cracking with use. Higher-end models incorporate some kind of reinforcement, such as a metal plate, to reduce the chances of this happening.
How to assemble aerator shoes
While not complicated, assembling aerator shoes can be time-consuming because you have to individually secure each screw in place, and there are usually between 24-26 of them between the two shoes. If you don’t want to deal with this, look for a pair that comes pre-assembled.
How much you can expect to spend on aerator shoes
The majority of aerator shoes cost between $15-$35. However, most people may want to avoid models that cost less than $20, as they are often made with low-quality materials.
Aerator shoes FAQ
Do aerator shoes work?
A. Aerator shoes’ spikes are solid and push the soil to the side and downward when used, thus compacting the soil even more. You simply strap them to your feet and walk around your yard. You can even do it while mowing, allowing you to get two jobs done simultaneously.
Do aerator shoes actually work?
A. There is no doubt that aerator shoes work to aerate your lawn, but whether or not they are a suitable choice for your needs is another question. If you have a small property, they are an effective way to loosen your soil and can even be used when you mow to save yourself some time. However, if you have a large property, you will be better off with a push or tow-behind aerator. You can learn more about the different types of lawn aerators on the BestReviews buying guide.
Do aerator shoes come in different sizes?
A. No, they don’t. Pretty much all aerator shoes have a one-size-fits-all design.
What are the best aerator shoes to buy?
Top aerator shoes
What you need to know: With a sturdy platform and thick straps, these aerator shoes should be the go-to choice for those who find other models feel a bit too flimsy.
What you’ll love: Thanks to a combination of laces and Velcro, they are easy to don quickly and stay securely in place. Plus, they conveniently come fully assembled, so you won’t have to waste any time screwing down a bunch of nuts.
What you should consider: The spikes can bend if you hit large rocks in the soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top aerator shoes for the money
What you need to know: The Ergomind Aerator shoes stand apart from the rest thanks to an integrated heel support system that helps ensure they stay firmly in place as your stomp all over your yard.
What you’ll love: The spikes are embedded into a steel plate, so you don’t have to worry about plastic breaking if you hit something hard at an odd angle with them. Also, the sturdy metal buckles do an effective job at preventing the straps from loosening as you work.
What you should consider: They only come with two spare spikes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: These basic lawn aerator shoes get the job done but are less durable than more costly models.
What you’ll love: The simple strap system makes them easy to don and doff without much fumbling around, and the textured footbeds offer a bit of traction, so they don’t shift around as you walk.
What you should consider: The spikes can loosen during use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Almost 20 million Americans live in mobile homes. Those homes are a lot less likely to be restored after natural disasters, meaning disasters often exacerbate the country's affordable housing crises.
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Gio Reyna named to U.S. Soccer’s Nations League roster
Forward Gio Reyna, the player at the center of a three-month soap opera that has engulfed and embarrassed U.S. Soccer, was called up to the national team Wednesday for Nations League games with Grenada and El Salvador.
The roster announcement comes two days after U.S. Soccer released a report detailing the friction between World Cup coach Gregg Berhalter and the Reyna family, one that began at last fall’s tournament in Qatar and left both men’s futures with the national team in doubt.
The report cleared Berhalter of any wrongdoing, but the federation has not decided whether to offer the coach a new contract. In the meantime, Anthony Hudson, a U.S. assistant in Qatar, is managing the team. Hudson visited Reyna last month in Germany, where he plays for Borussia Dortmund, and has called him back to the national team for the first time since the World Cup.
“Clearly it became a bit more complex in the months since the World Cup, but as far as we’re concerned Gio is a part of our program,” Hudson said in a statement. “He’s a good guy and a top talent and he is evaluated like any other player. We made the roster decisions based on what gives the team the best opportunity to win these games and we brought him in because we think he can help us do that.”
A report commissioned by U.S. Soccer cleared Gregg Berhalter of any infractions and highlighted more interference by Gio Reyna’s parents.
Results at Grenada on March 24 and against El Salvador on March 27 in Orlando, Fla., would lift the U.S. into the Final Four of the Nations League and qualify it for this summer’s Gold Cup. The U.S. won both tournaments under Berhalter two years ago, then made the round of 16 in the World Cup.
The 24-player roster Hudson summoned for the two games includes 13 players from the World Cup team, among them forward Christian Pulisic, midfielder Weston McKennie and goalkeeper Matt Turner. Also named was Club América forward Alex Zendejas, a dual national who has decided to play for the U.S., and defender Miles Robinson and goalkeeper Zack Steffen, who both featured heavily in World Cup qualifying but weren’t on the team in Qatar.
Missing is captain Tyler Adams, who recently picked up a hamstring injury, as well as LAFC midfielder Kellyn Acosta and defender Aaron Long, who were both on the World Cup team.
The roster includes players from club teams in 10 countries and 17 players who are younger than 25. Robinson, who plays for Atlanta United, is the only MLS player on the team.
“First and foremost, our objective is to win both matches,” said Hudson, who managed the U.S. to a win over Serbia and a draw with Colombia this winter in his first matches as interim coach. “From there, we want to maintain the standards that we’ve set and continue to build on the accomplishments of the last four years. We walked away from the World Cup knowing that we are capable of more and we’re excited to continue to move this group forward.”
A report commissioned by U.S. Soccer proves Gio Reyna’s parents went too far in trying to bring down USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter.
The roster
Goalkeepers: Ethan Horvath (Luton Town), Zack Steffen (Middlesbrough), Matt Turner (Arsenal)
Defenders: Sergiño Dest (AC Milan), Mark McKenzie (Genk), Tim Ream (Fulham), Bryan Reynolds (Westerlo), Antonee Robinson (Fulham), Miles Robinson (Atlanta United), Joe Scally (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Auston Trusty (Birmingham City)
Midfielders: Brenden Aaronson (Leeds United), Johnny Cardoso (Internacional), Luca de la Torre (Celta Vigo), Weston McKennie (Leeds United), Yunus Musah (Valencia), Alan Soñora (Juárez)
Forwards: Taylor Booth (Utrecht), Daryl Dike (West Bromwich Albion), Ricardo Pepi (Groningen), Christian Pulisic (Chelsea), Gio Reyna (Borussia Dortmund), Tim Weah (Lille), Alex Zendejas (Club América)
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ST. LOUIS, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spartech, a leading manufacturer of engineered thermoplastics and custom packaging solutions, is pleased to announce two new additions to the team: Dave Murphy as Director of Sales, Central Region, and David Dennemann as Account Manager, Western Region.
Murphy will be instrumental in development and execution of a sales strategy focused on long-term profitable growth for the complete line of Spartech products, while Dennemann will be responsible for driving profitable sales growth as he works with both Spartech distribution channel partners and direct customers.
Prior to coming to Spartech, Murphy has held varying sales management positions of increasing responsibility throughout his career. Most recently he was the Regional Sales Director – North American for Lindal Group of Hamburg, Germany. He holds a BS in Economics from Elmhurst University in Elmhurst, Illinois, and an MBA from Purdue University.
Dennemann spent the last nine years with a plastic's material manufacturer in their Pennsylvania, Washington, and California locations in Sales, with his most recent position as Senior Outside Sales Representative. At his former position he demonstrated a strong track record in growing sales and closing new business utilizing a consultative selling approach. In 2020, Dennemann was selected as a recipient for the prestigious President's Club Award. He holds a BS in Business Administration from Tiffin University in Tiffin, Ohio.
Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with a unique innovation center and 17 manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States, Spartech is a leading plastics manufacturer of engineered thermoplastic materials and specialty packaging products. Meeting exact standards for everything from food packaging to aerospace and automotive applications, Spartech continues to make a world of difference with sustainable, diverse, reliable, and innovative products including UltraTuf®, Royalite®, Korad®, PreservaPak®, and Polycast®. https://spartech.com
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Donald Trump to surrender to history-making criminal charges
NEW YORK (AP) - An extraordinary moment in U.S. history is scheduled to unfold in a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday: Former President Donald Trump, who faces multiple election-related investigations, will surrender to face criminal charges stemming from 2016 hush money payments.
The booking and arraignment are likely to be relatively brief — though hardly routine — as Trump is fingerprinted, learns the charges against him and pleads, as expected, not guilty.
Trump, who was impeached twice by the U.S. House but was never convicted in the U.S. Senate, will become the first former president to face criminal charges. The nation’s 45th commander in chief will be escorted from Trump Tower to the courthouse by the Secret Service and may have his mug shot taken.
New York police are braced for protests by Trump supporters, who share the Republican former president’s belief that the New York grand jury indictment and three additional pending investigations are politically motivated and intended to weaken his bid to retake the White House in 2024.
Trump, a former reality TV star, has been hyping that narrative to his political advantage, raising millions of dollars since the indictment on claims of a “witch hunt.” He has assailed the Manhattan district attorney, egged on supporters to protest and claimed without evidence that the judge presiding over the case “hates me” — something his own lawyer has said is not true.
Trump is scheduled to return to his Palm Beach, Florida, home, Mar-a-Lago, on Tuesday evening to hold a rally, punctuating his new reality: submitting to the dour demands of the American criminal justice system while projecting an aura of defiance and victimhood at celebratory campaign events.
A conviction would not prevent Trump from running for or winning the presidency in 2024.
Inside the Manhattan courtroom, prosecutors led by New York’s district attorney, Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, are expected to unseal the indictment issued last week by a grand jury. This is when Trump and his defense lawyers will get their first glimpse of the precise allegations against him.
The indictment contains multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press last week.
After the arraignment, Trump is expected to be released by authorities because the charges against him don’t require that bail be set.
The investigation is scrutinizing six-figure payments made to porn actor Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Both say they had sexual encounters with the married Trump years before he got into politics. Trump denies having sexual liaisons with either woman and has denied any wrongdoing involving payments.
The arraignment will unfold against the backdrop of heavy security in New York, coming more than two years after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to halt the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s win.
Though police said they had no intelligence suggesting any violence was likely, they were on high alert for any potential disruptions.
“While there may be some rabble rousers thinking of coming to our city tomorrow, our message is clear and simple: Control yourselves,” Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference Monday.
Trump pollster John McLaughlin said the former president would approach the day with “dignity.”
“He will be a gentleman,” McLaughlin said. “He’ll show strength and he’ll show dignity and ... we’ll get through this and win the election.”
But Trump was also defiant. In a post late Monday night on his social media network he lashed out at Biden, suggesting the current president should be facing legal troubles of his own.
Despite that, the scene around Trump Tower and the courthouse where Trump will stand before a judge was quiet overnight. There were signs both supporting and decrying the former president stuck to posts, one urging passers-by to donate to help fund Trump’s presidential library and another showing a shouting Trump behind bars.
The public fascination with the case was evident Monday as national television carried live images of Trump’s motorcade from his Mar-a-Lago club to a private, red, white and blue Boeing 757 stenciled with his name. From there, Trump was flown to New York, where cameras followed his motorcade into Manhattan and he spent the night at Trump Tower as he prepared to turn himself in.
The former president and his aides are embracing the media circus. After initially being caught off guard when news of the indictment broke Thursday evening, Trump and his team are hoping to use the case to his advantage. Still, they asked the judge in a Monday filing to ban photo and video coverage of the arraignment.
Though prosecutors routinely insist that no person is above the law, bringing criminal charges against a former president carries instant logistical complications.
New York’s ability to carry out safe and drama-free courthouse proceedings in a case involving a polarizing ex-president could be an important test case as prosecutors in Atlanta and Washington conduct their own investigations of Trump that could also result in charges. Those investigations concern efforts to undo the 2020 election results as well as the possible mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
Top Republicans, including some of Trump’s potential rivals in next year’s GOP presidential primary, have decried the case against him. Biden, who has yet to formally announce that he’s seeking reelection next year, and other leading Democrats have largely had little to say about it.
Prosecutors say their case against Trump has nothing to do with politics.
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Tucker and Weissert reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Bobby Caina Calvan, Jennifer Peltz and Ted Shaffrey in New York contributed to this report.
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Mid-engine hybrid supercars and the upcoming Purosangue crossover SUV are the Ferraris garnering the majority of headlines these days, but don’t sleep on the Roma coupe. This V-8-powered 2+2 is more than just an entry point into the House of Scuderia. It’s a grand tourer that comes alive in unexpected ways.
Sure, it starts at a lofty $243,358—or $311,647 as tested, including $5,000 (!) for destination—but ignore that price tag and start the engine. Driving the Roma will make you feel like a million bucks.
Despite its mechanical relation to the Portofino M hardtop convertible, the Roma’s appearance is decidedly less “base Ferrari,” like it’s positioned much closer to the exotic-looking 296 GTB. Even in this test car’s demure shade of Grigio Medio, the Roma looks like a far more expensive car: sleek and sophisticated, with just enough weirdness to make any car fan come back for a second look.
A literal wealth of carbon-fiber accoutrements adorn this Roma test car, to the tune of $33,242 in glossy add-ons. The wheel caps, front spoiler, side sills, diffuser and active spoiler are all done up in lightweight material, combined with 20-inch wheels ($2,531), black brake calipers ($1,519) and a sport exhaust system ($1,687).
Other big-ticket options are found inside the Ferrari Roma coupe, including niceties like the carbon-fiber steering wheel and paddles ($5,062), a premium stereo ($6,243), an Alcantara headliner ($4,219), a passenger infotainment display ($5,906), and an egregious $4,219 line item just for Apple CarPlay. Yeesh.
Nevertheless, the Roma’s interior is absolutely exquisite. The seats are as comfy as they are supportive and genuinely feel like they’d coddle any backside over the long haul. Plus, outward vision to the front and sides is quite good for such a low-slung sports coupe. Headroom and legroom aren’t issues, either, even for taller passengers, but the pair of rear seats is downright useless for anything other than shopping bags. Typical.
If there’s one big nit to pick with the Roma, it’s the in-cabin technology. The portrait-oriented center touchscreen is low-res and laggy, and everything in the reconfigurable gauge cluster is controlled by a four-way haptic pad on the right side of the steering wheel. The controls are fairly easy to master, but the system’s responses to inputs are inconsistent, the menu structure is convoluted, and god help anyone who needs to access functions like driver-assistance settings or the trip computer while driving.
I realize a robust infotainment suite isn’t a top priority for Ferrari customers, but this is bad. Really bad. There’s something to be said for a bespoke experience, but not when it comes at the cost of usability. I want to put the UX designers from Ferrari—and Aston Martin, Lamborghini, McLaren, etc.—inside a $22,000 Chevy Trailblazer and say, “Here. Just do this.”
But I digress. Once you locate the backlit engine start capacitive touch icon (RIP, big red start button) and fire up the Roma’s V-8 engine, you won’t care about the frustrating mirror controls or the fact that the in-screen volume adjustments take forever to respond. When this car wakes up, so do your senses.
The Roma uses the same 3.9-liter twin-turbo V-8 as the Portofino M, neatly nestled ahead of the firewall in a proper front-mid configuration. This engine produces 612 hp and 561 lb-ft of torque, and a sophisticated 8-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission drives the rear wheels. Huge, steering column-mounted paddle shifters let the driver work the transmission, while toggles on the center console in the shape of a manual shift gate provide access to Reverse, Neutral, and Automatic. Ferrari says the Roma will accelerate from 0-62 mph in 3.4 seconds and should top out right around 200 mph.
Launching the Roma is an intoxicating experience. Where a Porsche 911 Turbo will launch from a standstill to warp speed in the blink of an eye with no fuss, the Roma is way more visceral. The rear tires struggle to keep traction while managing the sheer brunt of the V-8’s power delivery, the dual-clutch transmission slams into each gear with force that’ll make your head buck, and the lights on the steering wheel illuminate as the engine inches closer and closer to the 7,500-rpm redline. So many supercars, Ferraris included, are point-and-shoot affairs, but the Roma is different. You absolutely have to hold on.
The same is true while enjoying one of Southern California’s great canyon roads. The Roma feels alive in your hands, with chatty steering and a suspension that conveys every change in road surface through the seat of your pants. The engine sounds amazing; it’s one of the best forced-induction V-8s I’ve ever heard. Quick reflexes match nicely with the Roma’s playful rear end, and while the coupe has a slight tendency to oversteer around tighter hairpins, it’s always on the driver’s terms. Like any great Ferrari, the Roma works with the driver, encouraging you to drive it faster. This thing simply doesn’t disappoint.
That’s true during more docile bits of driving as well. The Roma can be fitted with an optional dual-mode magnetorheological suspension—a costly $5,568, natch—that strikes a perfect balance between taut and plush. Turn the Manettino drive mode selector from Comfort to Sport and the suspension stiffens up appreciably without crunching your spine when accidentally hitting a pothole too hard. Wet and Race modes round out the available settings, though I never found a reason to use either. A further turn to the right will fully disable the stability control, too, but that should only be reserved for track days—something a Roma will likely never do.
Combined with the aforementioned comfy cabin and good visibility, the Roma really could be driven every day. The trunk’s large enough to accommodate a pair of roll-aboard suitcases or one huge checked bag, and Ferrari even offers modern driver-assistance amenities like adaptive cruise control and lane-departure warnings, though the latter beeps incessantly. All that’s missing is an electronic front-end lift. Careful on those steep driveways.
The Roma’s high-end competitive set includes cars like the Aston Martin DB11 and Bentley Continental GT, both of which are formidable grand tourers in their own right but not nearly as exciting to drive. Ferrari’s more apt foe is the Porsche 911 Turbo S, which is less expensive at $217,550 to start (including destination). Crucially, the Turbo S is quicker and more powerful, but are those really the most important attributes to a potential Ferrari customer?
No, what matters most here is exclusivity. Compared to a Roma—or any Ferrari for that matter—911s are relatively thick on the ground. Yes, the Porsche is quicker and easier to live with and the infotainment controls won’t frustrate you to your wit’s end, but the Roma is a Ferrari. And a great one at that.
—by Steven Ewing
Ferrari provided a test-car loan for Motor Authority to bring you this firsthand report.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived Saturday in Japan for talks with the leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies, a personal appearance meant to galvanize global attention as the nations ratcheted up pressure on Moscow for its 15-month invasion of Ukraine.
Bolstering international support is a key priority as Ukraine prepares for what’s seen as a major push to take back territory seized by Russia in the war that began in February last year. Zelenskyy’s in-person visit to the G7 summit comes just hours after the United States agreed to allow training on potent American-made fighter jets, laying the groundwork for their eventual transfer to Ukraine.
Host nation Japan said Zelenskyy’s inclusion stems from his “strong wish” to participate in talks with the bloc and other countries that will influence his nation’s defense against Russia.
“Japan. G7. Important meetings with partners and friends of Ukraine. Security and enhanced cooperation for our victory. Peace will become closer today,” Zelenskyy tweeted upon his arrival on a plane provided by France.
A European Union official, speaking on condition of anonymity to brief reporters on the deliberations, said Zelenskyy will take part in two separate sessions Sunday. One session will be with G7 members only and will focus on the war in Ukraine. Another will include the G7 as well as the other nations invited to take part in the summit, and will focus on “peace and stability.”
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that President Joe Biden and Zelenskyy would have direct engagement at the summit. On Friday, Biden announced his support for training Ukrainian pilots on U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets, a precursor to eventually providing those aircraft to Ukraine.
“It is necessary to improve (Ukraine’s) air defense capabilities, including the training of our pilots,” Zelenskyy wrote on his official Telegram channel after meeting Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, one of a number of leaders he talked to.
Zelenskyy also met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, their first face-to-face talks since the war, and briefed him on Ukraine’s peace plan, which calls for the withdrawal of Russian troops from the country before any negotiations.
Russia’s deputy defense minister, Alexander Grushko, accused Western countries of “continuing along the path of escalation,” following the announcements that raised the possibility of sending F-16s to Kyiv.
The G7 vowed to intensify the pressure in its joint statement Saturday.
“Russia’s brutal war of aggression represents a threat to the whole world in breach of fundamental norms, rules and principles of the international community. We reaffirm our unwavering support for Ukraine for as long as it takes to bring a comprehensive, just and lasting peace,” the group said.
G7 leaders have faced a balancing act as they look to address a raft of global worries demanding urgent attention, including climate change, AI, poverty and economic instability, nuclear proliferation and, above all, the war in Ukraine.
China, the world’s No. 2 economy, sits at the nexus of many of those concerns.
There is increasing anxiety that Beijing, which has been steadily building up its nuclear weapons program, could try to seize Taiwan by force, sparking a wider conflict. China claims the self-governing island as its own and regularly sends ships and warplanes near it.
The G7 on Saturday said they did not want to harm China and were seeking “constructive and stable relations” with Beijing, “recognizing the importance of engaging candidly with and expressing our concerns directly to China.”
They also urged China to pressure Russia to end the war in Ukraine and “support a comprehensive, just and lasting peace.”
North Korea, which has been testing missiles at a torrid pace, must completely abandon its nuclear bomb ambitions, “including any further nuclear tests or launches that use ballistic missile technology,” the leaders’ statement said.
The green light on F-16 training is the latest shift by the Biden administration as it moves to arm Ukraine with more advanced and lethal weaponry, following earlier decisions to send rocket launcher systems and Abrams tanks. The United States has insisted that it is sending weapons to Ukraine to defend itself and has discouraged attacks by Ukraine into Russian territory.
“We’ve reached a moment where it is time to look down the road again to say what is Ukraine going to need as part of a future force, to be able to deter and defend against Russian aggression as we go forward,” Sullivan said.
Biden’s decisions on when, how many, and who will provide the fourth-generation F-16 fighter jets will be made in the months ahead while the training is underway, Biden told leaders.
The G7 leaders have rolled out a new wave of global sanctions on Moscow as well as plans to enhance the effectiveness of existing financial penalties meant to constrain President Vladimir Putin’s war effort. Russia is now the most-sanctioned country in the world, but there are questions about the effectiveness.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticized the G-7 summit for aiming to isolate both China and Russia.
“The task has been set loudly and openly: to defeat Russia on the battlefield, but not to stop there, but to eliminate it as a geopolitical competitor. As a matter of fact, any other country that claims some kind of independent place in the world alignment will also be to suppress a competitor. Look at the decisions that are now being discussed and adopted in Hiroshima, at the G-7 summit, and which are aimed at double containment of Russia and China,” he said.
Russia had participated in some summits with the other seven countries before being removed from the then-Group of Eight after its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida separately held one-on-one talks with leaders, including Modi, who is hosting the gathering of G20 world leaders later this year.
India, the world’s largest democracy, has been measured in its comments on the war in Ukraine, and has avoided outright condemnation of Russia’s invasion. While India maintains close ties with the U.S. and its Western allies, it is also a major buyer of Russian arms and oil.
The latest sanctions aimed at Russia include tighter restrictions on already-sanctioned people and firms involved in the war effort. More than 125 individuals and organizations across 20 countries have been hit with U.S. sanctions.
The leaders began the summit with a visit to a peace park dedicated to the tens of thousands who died in the world’s first wartime atomic bomb detonation. Kishida, who represents Hiroshima in parliament, wants nuclear disarmament to be a major focus of discussions.
The G7 leaders also discussed efforts to strengthen the global economy and address rising prices that are squeezing families and government budgets around the world, particularly in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The group reiterated its aim to pull together up to $600 billion in financing for the G7’s global infrastructure development initiative, which is meant to offer countries an alternative to China’s investment dollars.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni will skip the last day of the G7 because of floods earlier this week in northern Italy, which claimed at least 14 lives and devastated dozens of hamlets and towns.
“Biden, who scrapped plans to travel on to Papua New Guinea and Australia after his stay in Japan so that he can get back to debt limit talks in Washington, is also meeting with leaders of the so-called Quad partnership, made up of Japan, Australia, India and the United States.
The G7 includes Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Italy, as well as the European Union.
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Associated Press writers Zeke Miller, Elaine Kurtenbach and Mari Yamaguchi in Hiroshima, Japan, and Joanna Kozlowska in London contributed to this report.
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CHESTER, Pa. — The goal will live on highlight reels for years, a first that Jack McGlynn will never forget. The erasure of a zero in the career goals column is an accolade which always jumps off the page.
The midfielder’s goal in Saturday night’s 6-0 win over Houston may have been his glitziest entry in a three-game stint as a starter, but it’s hardly the most significant. Nor is it the only reason that the club won all three of those starts.
Instead, McGlynn has created from the bench what every MLS team seeks in a summer transfer window, one many have paid dearly for: A new wrinkle to catch teams off guard and to keep them thinking.
McGlynn doesn’t need dead-ball situations to do that. Deservedly, his goal in the 42nd minute will be replayed over and over on the big screen at Subaru Park. He shaped a perfect free kick from 25 yards out with his left foot, sailing it high to beat the wall, dipping it back to earth to evade the crossbar and nestling in the back corner of the net past a hopeless Michael Nelson to make it 2-0. It was an utterly stupendous finish.
“I practice them basically every day after training,” McGlynn said. “All the guys know I’m capable of hitting it, so they gave me the opportunity and thank God it went in. It’s about time I scored.”
That latter point is McGlynn’s diagnosis, a running joke among players and staff. The truth is that the elegant midfielder has the rare gift to impact games without scoring. Having turned 19 in July, he might have been the only one hearing the clock ticking on a professional career that only Saturday crossed 1,000 minutes, over 31 games and 10 starts.
Instead, McGlynn has showed in the Union’s unbeaten month how influential he can be away from the opposing goal. The full appreciation requires a brief tactical diversion.
Plan A for the Union, in Ernst Tanner’s high-pressure system, is to create chances by defending. Instead of having to string together 30 passes to get in good attacking positions, it’s preferable (and more cost-effective, since pass connectors cost premium salaries) to turn teams over via the press. That lends field position and a chance to attack an unstructured defense. Teams early this season understood the Union’s preferred plan and took steps to avoid the press. So the Union had to adapt.
The opening goal against Houston Saturday night was a salient depiction of that Plan B. It started with a recovery by Leon Flach about 80 yards from goal. That’s not usually a high-leverage location to attack from. But with possession getting to McGlynn about 30 yards from his own goal, his sublime passing makes it a chance – in this case, a perfectly weighted over-the-top ball dinked into the path of an onrushing Mikael Uhre. Seven touches later, Daniel Gazdag opened the scoring.
“That ball was perfect to Mikael,” manager Jim Curtin said. “It was timed really well, and he has that ability to play it. You can almost see in the center back’s face where they think they can get it and you see the ‘oh shoot’ moment where they recognize it’s just out of their reach. And he did that five or six times tonight, which really helps us. That makes them start to drop a little deeper, and when they do that, you can find Daniel underneath the strikers. It creates space for the rest of our midfielders.”
McGlynn’s starting stint has come with players suspended – first Alejandro Bedoya, then Jose Martinez. But he’s forged relationships with Gazdag, Uhre and others quickly. His cultured left foot, exemplary to the point of unprecedented for his age, makes those connections quickly.
“I can’t really explain how good of a left foot Jack really has,” Uhre said. “I know that when Jack has time on the ball and even when he doesn’t really have time on the ball, I just know that when he’s turned he’s capable of playing nearly every pass. And that makes it easier as a striker.”
McGlynn has weaknesses to his game, as any teen would. He said he’s worked on his defensive work rate, and that may be what ultimately limits his time in Curtin’s defense-first system. Yet, in his three starts, the Union have allowed all of one goal.
He might not stick in the lineup because of the caliber of players around him. Curtin regards Martinez as the best No. 6 in MLS, Flach is an irreplaceable cog, Bedoya is on the other side and then it becomes a question of one striker or two, with both in form.
Either way, McGlynn will stay ready, for tactical matchups to exploit from the start or for days when the Union need to change a game with the ball. What’s clear is he has that ability, when called upon, in a variety of situations.
“His composure is special for a kid as young as he is,” Curtin said. “He’s clever enough to get out of a tight spot with that left foot, too, so if you sprint at him, he has a couple of outs in his game to get away from pressure. If you do lay off him, he can play that ball in behind. He’s able to hurt you a lot of different ways.”
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Stephan Weiler, Colorado State University and Tessa Conroy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(THE CONVERSATION) When the Federal Reserve convenes at the end of January 2023 to set interest rates, it will be guided by one key bit of data: the U.S. inflation rate. The problem is, that stat ignores a sizable chunk of the country – rural America.
Currently sitting at 6.5%, the rate of inflation is still high, even though it has fallen back slightly from the end of 2022.
The overall inflation rate, along with core inflation – which strips out highly volatile food and energy costs – is seen as key to knowing whether the economy is heating up too fast, and guided the Fed as it imposed several large 0.75 percentage point interest rate increases in 2022. The hope is that raising the benchmark rate, which in turn increases the costs of taking out a bank loan or mortgage, for example, will help reduce inflation back to the Fed target of around 2%.
But the main indicator of inflation, the consumer price index, is compiled by looking at the changes in price specifically urban Americans pay for a set basket of goods. Those living in rural America are not surveyed.
As economists who studyrural America, we believe this poses a problem: People living outside America’s cities represent 14% of the U.S. population, or around 46 million people. They are likely to face different financial pressures and have different consumption habits than urbanites.
The fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys only urban populations for the consumer price index makes assessing rural inflation much more difficult – it may even be masking a rural-urban inflation gap.
To assess if such a gap exists, one needs to turn to other pricing data and qualitative analyses to build a picture of price growth in nonurban areas. We did this by focusing on four critical goods and services in which rural and urban price effects may be significantly different. What we found was rural areas may indeed be suffering more from inflation than urban areas, creating an underappreciated gap.
1. The cost of running a car in the country
Higher costs related to cars and gas can contribute to a urban-rural inflation gap, severely eating into any discretionary income for families outside urban areas, a 2022 report found.
This is likely related to there being considerable differences in vehicle purchases, ownership and lengths of commutes between urban and rural Americans.
Car ownership is integral to rural life, essential for getting from place to place, whereas urban residents can more easily choose cheaper options like public transit, walking or bicycling. This has several implications for expenses in rural areas.
Rural residents spend more on car purchases out of necessity. They are also more likely to own a used car. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a huge increase in used car prices as a result of a lack of new vehicles due to supply chain constraints. These price increases likely affected remote areas disproportionately.
Rural Americans tend to drive farther as part of their day-to-day activities. Because of greater levels of isolation, rural workers are often required to make longer commutes and drive farther for child care, with the proportion of those traveling 50 miles (80 kilometers) or more for work having increased over the past few years. In upper Midwest states as of 2018, nearly 25% of workers in the most remote rural counties commute 50 miles (80 kilometers) or more, compared with just over 10% or workers in urban counties.
Longer journeys mean cars and trucks will wear out more quickly. As a result, rural residents have to devote more money to repairing and replacing cars and trucks – so any jump in automotive inflation will hit them harder.
Though fuel costs can be volatile, periods of high energy prices – such as the one the U.S. experienced through much of 2022 – are likely to disproportionately affect rural residents given the necessity and greater distances of driving. Anecdotal evidence also suggests gas prices can behigher in rural communities than in urban areas.
2. Rising cost of eating at home – and traveling for groceries
As eating away from home becomes more expensive, many households may choose to eat in more often to cut costs. But rural residents already spend a larger amount on eating at home – likely due in part to the slimmer choices available for eating out.
This means they have less flexibility as food costs rise, particularly when it comes to essential grocery items for home preparation. And with the annual inflation of the price of groceries outpacing the cost eating out – 11.8% versus 8.3% – dining at home becomes comparably more expensive.
Rural Americans also do more driving to get groceries – the median rural household travels 3.11 miles (5 kilometers) to go to the nearest grocery store, compared with 0.69 miles (1.1 kilometers) for city dwellers. This creates higher costs to feed a rural family and again more vehicle depreciation.
Rural grocery stores are also dwindling in number, with dollar stores taking their place. As a result, fresh food in particular can be scarce and expensive, which leads to a more limited and unhealthy diet. And with food-at-home prices rising faster than prices at restaurants, the tendency of rural residents to eat more at home will see their costs rising faster.
3. The cost of growing old and ill outside cities
Demographically, rural counties trend older – part of the effect of younger residents migrating to cities and college towns for either work or educational reasons. And older people spend more on health insurance and medical services. Medical services overall have been rising in cost too, so those older populations will be spending more for vital doctors visits.
Again with health, any increase in gas prices will disproportionately hit rural communities more because of the extra travel needed to get even primary care. On average, rural Americans travel 5 more miles (8 kilometers) to get to the nearest hospital than those living in cities. And specialists may be hundreds of miles away.
4. Cheaper home costs, but heating and cooling can be expensive
Rural Americans aren’t always the losers when it comes to the inflation gap. One item in rural areas that favors them is housing.
Outside cities, housing costs are generally lower, because of more limited demand. More rural Americans own their homes than city dwellers. Since owning a home is generally cheaper than renting during a time of rising housing costs, this helps insulate homeowners from inflation, especially as housing prices soared in 2021.
But even renters in rural America spend proportionately less. With housing making up around a third of the consumer price index, these cost advantages work in favor of rural residents.
However, poorer-quality housing leaves rural homeowners and renters vulnerable to rising heating and cooling costs, as well as additional maintenance costs.
Inflation – a disproportionate burden
While there is no conclusive official quantitative data that shows an urban-rural inflation gap, a review of rural life and consumption habits suggests that rural Americans suffer more as the cost of living goes up.
Indeed, rural inflation may be more pernicious than urban inflation, with price increases likely lingering longer than in cities.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/rural-americans-arent-included-in-inflation-figures-and-for-them-the-cost-of-living-may-be-rising-faster-197781.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is temporarily blocking the turnover of phone records belonging to the leader of the Arizona Republican Party to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Kagan’s order Wednesday evening paused anything from happening while an emergency appeal by GOP state chair Kelli Ward is under consideration by the high court.
Ward has said her First Amendment rights would be chilled if investigators were able to learn whom she spoke with while trying to challenge former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat.
A federal appeals court panel ruled 2-1 against Ward over the weekend and said the committee should get records of calls Ward made and received from just before the November 2020 election to Jan. 31, 2021. That includes a period when Ward was pushing for Trump’s election defeat to be overturned and Congress was set to certify the results in favor of Democrat Joe Biden.
Ward asked Kagan, who handles emergency appeals involving the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, to put the lower court’s ruling on hold. Kagan did so temporarily Wednesday, saying the records should not be released for now. Kagan gave the House committee until Friday evening to respond to Ward’s Supreme Court filing.
Ruling against Ward at the appeals court level were judges appointed by presidents of different parties. Barry Silverman, an appointee of former Democratic President Bill Clinton, and Eric Miller, a Trump appointee, both ruled against Ward. Judge Sandra Ikuta Ikuta, an appointee of former Republican President George W. Bush, dissented.
The appeals court ruling followed a September decision by a federal judge in Phoenix who also ruled against Ward.
Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, were presidential electors who would have voted for Trump in the Electoral College had he won Arizona. Both signed a document falsely claiming they were Arizona’s true electors, despite Biden’s victory in the state.
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- rhCollagen-based regenerative breast implants address $2.8 billion global breast implant market with revolutionary and potentially safer new product
- Regenerative breast implants for aesthetic and reconstructive procedures including postmastectomy for cancer patients
- The study is planned to be concluded within six months
REHOVOT, Israel, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CollPlant (Nasdaq: CLGN), a regenerative and aesthetics medicine company developing innovative technologies and products for tissue regeneration and organ manufacturing, today announced the initiation of a study in large animals for its 3D bioprinted regenerative breast implant program, addressing the $2.8 billion global breast implant market.
"This study is a quantum leap in the development of 3D bioprinted regenerative breast implants," said Yehiel Tal, CollPlant's Chief Executive Officer. "We believe that our regenerative breast implants will address safety challenges associated with silicone implants while also providing a more natural looking and feeling aesthetic result. Immediately following the conclusion of this study, we are planning to launch a second study with human size implants that mimic commercial products. These studies will advance us to the significant stage of human clinical trials."
CollPlant's bioprinted regenerative implants aim to overcome the challenges of existing breast procedures that use silicone implants or autologous fat transfer. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, approximately 350,000 people have reported adverse events involving breast implants between 2009 and 2019. Reports range from autoimmune symptoms to breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL). CollPlant's regenerative breast implants are comprised of the Company's proprietary plant-derived rhCollagen, an ideal building block for regenerative medicine implants attributed to better bio-functionality, superior homogeneity, and improved safety. The printed implant is intended to degrade over time while promoting natural tissue regeneration and integration with host tissue. 3D bioprinting technology enables scalable production of highly precise and repeatable constructs, which can be customized to the individual anatomy of patients. The implants are designed to withstand physiological loads and to provide what CollPlant believes is a safer, more natural, and long-lasting alternative to current breast reconstruction and augmentation procedures.
To date, CollPlant has successfully produced prototypes of 3D bioprinted implants designed to regenerate breast tissue and evaluated these in a series of preclinical studies. The Company is now approaching an important milestone with the launch of a large animal study that involves the implantation of reduced-size 3D bioprinted implants in a clinically relevant porcine animal model. The study, which is planned to be concluded within six months, will evaluate adipose tissue regeneration, tissue integration, vascularization of the implant, implant degradation rate, and host tissue response to the implant. The study will also include screening of compositions and optimization of the surgical procedure, which will serve as the basis for the design of a pivotal large study with human size implants.
In the product development process, CollPlant uses computational modeling tools that enable an optimal design of the implant in terms of geometry, materials, physical properties, and biological environment. The modeling takes into consideration the internal anatomy of the breast tissue and the behavior of an implant, post-implantation. The implant testing is rigorous and includes static and dynamic loading in order to mimic breast tissue behavior under different conditions and comply with the most stringent safety requirements.
About CollPlant
CollPlant is a regenerative and aesthetic medicine company focused on 3D bioprinting of tissues and organs, and medical aesthetics. The Company's products are based on its rhCollagen (recombinant human collagen) produced with CollPlant's proprietary plant based genetic engineering technology. These products address indications for the diverse fields of tissue repair, aesthetics, and organ manufacturing, and are ushering in a new era in regenerative and aesthetic medicine.
At the beginning of 2021, CollPlant entered into a development and global commercialization agreement for dermal and soft tissue fillers with Allergan, an AbbVie company, the global leader in the dermal filler market. Later in 2021, CollPlant entered a strategic co-development agreement with 3D Systems for a 3D bioprinted regenerative soft tissue matrix for use in breast reconstruction procedures in combination with an implant.
For more information about CollPlant, visit http://www.collplant.com
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This press release may include forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements relating to CollPlant's objectives plans and strategies, as well as statements, other than historical facts, that address activities, events or developments that CollPlant intends, expects, projects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future. These statements are often characterized by terminology such as "believes," "hopes," "may," "anticipates," "should," "intends," "plans," "will," "expects," "estimates," "projects," "positioned," "strategy" and similar expressions and are based on assumptions and assessments made in light of management's experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors believed to be appropriate. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Many factors could cause CollPlant's actual activities or results to differ materially from the activities and results anticipated in forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following: the Company's history of significant losses, its ability to continue as a going concern, and its need to raise additional capital and its inability to obtain additional capital on acceptable terms, or at all; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; the Company's expectations regarding the timing and cost of commencing clinical trials with respect to tissues and organs which are based on its rhCollagen based BioInk and products for medical aesthetics; the Company's ability to obtain favorable pre-clinical and clinical trial results; regulatory action with respect to rhCollagen based BioInk and medical aesthetics products including but not limited to acceptance of an application for marketing authorization review and approval of such application, and, if approved, the scope of the approved indication and labeling; commercial success and market acceptance of the Company's rhCollagen based products in 3D Bioprinting and medical aesthetics; the Company's ability to establish sales and marketing capabilities or enter into agreements with third parties and its reliance on third party distributors and resellers; the Company's ability to establish and maintain strategic partnerships and other corporate collaborations; the Company's reliance on third parties to conduct some or all aspects of its product manufacturing; the scope of protection the Company is able to establish and maintain for intellectual property rights and the Company's ability to operate its business without infringing the intellectual property rights of others; the overall global economic environment; the impact of competition and new technologies; general market, political, and economic conditions in the countries in which the Company operates; projected capital expenditures and liquidity; changes in the Company's strategy; and litigation and regulatory proceedings. More detailed information about the risks and uncertainties affecting CollPlant is contained under the heading "Risk Factors" included in CollPlant's most recent annual report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC, and in other filings that CollPlant has made and may make with the SEC in the future. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and reflect CollPlant's current views with respect to future events, and CollPlant does not undertake and specifically disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Contact at CollPlant:
Eran Rotem
Deputy CEO & CFO
Tel: + 972-73-2325600
Email: Eran@CollPlant.com
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
904 PM CDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT/2 AM MDT/ WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southwest Texas, including the following
counties, Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio and Reeves.
* WHEN...Until 300 AM CDT /200 AM MDT/.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos. Dangerous flows
over low-water crossings.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 904 PM CDT /804 PM MDT/, Doppler radar and automated rain
gauges indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This is
causing arroyo and small stream flooding. Between 1 and 3
inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Alpine, Van Horn, Marfa, Kent, Fort Davis, Pine Springs,
Valentine, Plateau, McDonald Observatory, Bloys Camp, Davis
Mountains State Park, Balmorhea State Park, Camp Mitre Peak,
McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Black
Mountain, Buffalo Trail Scout Camp and Lobo.
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
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As top Democrats campaigned across Illinois in recent months, they vowed that the state would remain an island of abortion access in a sea of states that restrict the procedure.
But the end of Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion has raised a question state lawmakers have yet to address: Can abortion’s opponents in other states sue or prosecute people in Illinois?
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ROGERS, Ark., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Unknown Golf, LLC and Island Ventures Inc. announced today that Island Ventures acquired a strategic ownership interest in Unknown Golf. Unknown Golf offers an easy-to-use yet sophisticated platform for managing golf tournaments, league events, and individual golfers' games. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Island Ventures' investment will support the continued development of the platform, an enhanced user experience, new product features, and the achievement of key strategic initiatives. In addition to a financial investment, Island Ventures brings strategic management, operational, and business development expertise to Unknown Golf.
"I couldn't be more excited to partner with the team at Island Ventures," said Bill Trabosh, Founder of Unknown Golf. "They bring experience and expertise in brand and business development that Unknown Golf needs to reach its goals. We've already begun a full site refresh and are developing iPhone and Android native apps geared toward our users."
Justin Whaley, CEO of Island Ventures, added, "As an avid golfer and user of the Unknown Golf service, I was thrilled to partner with Bill in this venture. He's done a tremendous job developing the current version of Unknown Golf, and I can't wait to reveal the planned enhancements."
About Unknown Golf
A licensed USGA® tournament provider, Unknown Golf was built by golfers and golf professionals to provide a simple yet robust event and game management platform. The platform manages every data point so that club professionals, directors, and players can enjoy the game. USGA® GHIN integrated, Unknown Golf is the home of everything a golfer wants to know about their golf game. While Unknown Golf is a powerful platform, its service-first approach sets them apart. Learn more at unknowngolf.com and follow Unknown Golf on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
About Island Ventures
Island Ventures Inc. is an alternative venture investment firm focusing primarily on consumer products and services. With a diverse portfolio of operating subsidiaries and strategic investments, Island Ventures uses its financial and human capital to maximize success and stewardship to enrich the lives of others. Learn more at islandventuresinc.com.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard ship on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across a guided missile cruiser from China, officials said Monday.
But it turned out the cruiser wasn’t alone as it sailed about 86 miles (138 kilometers) north of Alaska’s Kiska Island, on Sept. 19.
The patrol boat, known as a cutter called Kimball, later discovered there were two other Chinese naval ships and four Russian naval vessels, including a destroyer, all in single formation.
The Honolulu-based Kimball, a 418-foot (127-meter) vessel, observed as the ships broke formation and dispersed. A C-130 Hercules provided air support for the Kimball from the Coast Guard station in Kodiak.
“While the formation has operated in accordance with international rules and norms, we will meet presence with presence to ensure there are no disruptions to U.S. interests in the maritime environment around Alaska,” Rear Adm. Nathan Moore, Seventeenth Coast Guard District commander said.
The Coast Guard said Operation Frontier Sentinel guidelines call for meeting “presence with presence” when strategic competitors operate in and around U.S. waters.
The Kimball will continue to monitor the area.
The Coast Guard did not immediately respond to questions about the incident from The Associated Press.
The Chinese and Russian formation came a month after NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned about China’s interest in the Arctic and Russia’s military buildup there.
Stoltenberg said Russia has set up a new Arctic Command and has opened hundreds of new and former Soviet-era Arctic military sites, including deep-water ports and airfields.
China has declared itself a “near Arctic” state and plans to build the world’s largest icebreaker, he said.
“Beijing and Moscow have also pledged to intensify practical cooperation in the Arctic. This forms part of a deepening strategic partnership that challenges our values and interests,” Stoltenberg said in a visit to Canada’s north.
This wasn’t the first time Chinese naval ships have sailed near Alaska waters. In September 2021, Coast Guard cutters in the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean encountered Chinese ships, some about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the Aleutian Islands.
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● One lucky person will get paid to book a trip of their dreams using RetailMeNot's top retailers
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"We are in the business of helping consumers save money on all the things they love, and this spring that includes all of their travel purchase needs for the perfect getaway," says Kristin McGrath, Shopping Expert at RetailMeNot. "We're also excited to bring on our first ever Chief Spring Breaker and give them the opportunity to take the trip of their dreams."
A recent RetailMeNot survey found 96% of Americans are planning to travel between March and May and plan to spend $3,250. Knowing this, the savings destination created a shopping event to offer consumers all the best travel deals in one place. During the Spring Savecation event, shoppers will find strong offers and cash back rewards for their spring and summer getaways, scoring up to 60% off from top brands like Expedia, IHG Hotels & Resorts, VRBO and many more.
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By GISELA SALOMON
The Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) — A judge declined on Monday to grant Mexican actor Pablo Lyle a new trial after he was convicted of fatally punching a man during a road rage confrontation in Miami in 2019.
The judge upheld an October jury trial verdict convicting Lyle of involuntary manslaughter and scheduled Lyle’s sentencing for Feb. 3. The 35-year-old Mexican telenovela star, who also appeared in the Netflix crime series “Yankee,” could face a maximum sentence of up to 15 years in prison.
Dressed in a red jail uniform and with his face covered by a medical mask, Lyle made no statements during the 30-minute hearing before Circuit Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez in Miami. He has been detained since his Oct. 4 conviction.
A six-member jury had found Lyle guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Juan Ricardo Hernández, 63. His lawyers argued there were inconsistencies in the evidence and that no evidence or witnesses had been presented to show that Lyle had acted out of fear for his life and that of his children.
Mendez rejected that argument, ruling there was no reason to vacate the verdict.
“After carefully reviewing all of the issues raised, taken individually or cumulatively, the court does not believe that the claims raised by the defense support the granting of a new trial,” the judge said.
The actor had been accused of punching Hernandez, who died a few days after the March 2019 incident. Lyle’s brother-in-law was taking the actor, his wife and two children to the airport. The car passed that of Hernandez, who stopped at a red light, got out and approached the window of Lyle’s vehicle to claim that they had blocked his way.
Security video footage showed Lyle and Hernandez got into an argument, and that the actor punched Hernandez in the face. Lyle claimed he acted in self-defense and his children were terrified and that he feared Hernandez had a weapon.
The unarmed Hernandez suffered a traumatic brain injury and died four days later at a hospital.
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WILMINGTON, Del., April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Wellness Natural USA Inc. of Wilmington, DE is expanding their voluntary recall of its SimplyProtein® Peanut Butter Chocolate Crispy Bar, which is sold in a 15-count variety pack that contains two other flavors, because it may contain undeclared cashews. The initial recall which included a single lot has been expanded to include all lots within expiration, the Best Before dates are indicated below. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to cashews run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.
The recalled products were only distributed in Costco stores nationwide in the United States.
The product comes in a 15-count variety pack which includes 5 Peanut Butter Chocolate Crispy Bars. The product is marked with a Best Before date and Lot number on the bar wrapper (UPC 6 86207 00914 7) and on the outside carton (UPC 6 86207 80906 8). The photographs below indicate the location of Best Before date markings. Any product with the Best Before date between 11 APR 2023 and 14 MAR 2024 is included in this expanded recall.
The recall was voluntarily initiated due to a consumer complaint, which is the only reported reaction to date. It was determined the product may potentially contain undeclared cashew. The expansion comes following a decision by Wellness Natural USA Inc. to exercise an abundance of caution while the root cause of the contamination continues to be investigated.
Costco stores in the United States who are in possession of the product are urged to stop sales and distribution immediately, contain and isolate the affected products, and contact Wellness Natural USA Inc. for verification and disposal instructions. Consumers who have purchased the impacted products and have a sensitivity to cashew should not consume the product and return them to Costco for a full refund.
This product and the two other flavors in the carton, which declare cashew as an allergen, are safe to consume for people who do not have a sensitivity to cashew.
Any questions or concerns should be directed to contact@wellnessnaturalinc.com between the hours of 9:00 – 5:00 EST, Monday thru Friday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has repeatedly said he is “fine” since he froze up midsentence during a press conference on Wednesday. And now his office is trying to tamp down speculation that he might not fill out his term as leader because of his health.
In a statement, his office said McConnell appreciates the continued support of his colleagues and “plans to serve his full term in the job they overwhelmingly elected him to do.”
The statement, first reported by Politico, comes after McConnell, 81, has suffered health problems in recent months. At his weekly press conference this week, he froze and stared vacantly for about 20 seconds before his GOP colleagues standing behind him grabbed his elbows and asked if he wanted to go back to his office. He later returned to the news conference and answered questions as if nothing had happened.
When asked about the episode, he said he was “fine,” a statement he repeated in a hallway to reporters later that day. Neither McConnell nor his office would answer questions about whether he got medical help afterward.
Even as McConnell tried to brush off the concerns, the episode raised new questions among his colleagues about his health and also whether McConnell, who was first elected to the Senate in 1984 and has served as Republican leader since 2007, might soon step aside from his leadership post.
He was elected to a two-year term as leader in January by a large majority of his conference, despite an insurgent challenge from Florida Sen. Rick Scott. He would be up for re-election as leader again after the 2024 elections.
By then, he will have to decide also if he wants to run again for another Senate term. He is up for re-election in 2026.
In March, McConnell suffered a concussion and a broken rib after falling and hitting his head after a dinner event at a hotel. He didn’t return to the Senate for almost six weeks. He has been using a wheelchair in the airport while commuting back and forth to Kentucky. And his speech has recently sounded more halting.
But McConnell, famously reticent and often private about his personal life and health, has said very little about what is going on.
Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota said after Wednesday’s episode that McConnell’s job as leader calls for more transparency than it would for others.
“We should find out, you know, fairly soon what happened and how serious it is,” Cramer said. “But I don’t have to tell you, Mitch is also, as an individual, a pretty private guy. So we’ll see.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said he talked to McConnell on Wednesday night and he seemed “strong and alert.” But he said what happened at the news conference on Wednesday was disturbing to watch.
“Mitch is strong, he’s stubborn as a mule,” Cruz said. “My prayers are with them. I hope that — we’re going into the August recess — I hope he has time to fully recuperate.”
GOP senators who are seen as potential successors have been cautious in their reaction.
“He’s fine, he’s back to work,” said South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican and one of the senators standing behind McConnell when he froze up.
“I support Senator McConnell as long as he wants to serve as leader,” said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, another potential replacement.
Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 3 Senate Republican and a former orthopedic surgeon, guided McConnell back to his office to rest during the news conference. Afterwards, he told reporters that he has been concerned since McConnell was injured earlier this year, “and I continue to be concerned.”
Barrasso then added: “I said I was concerned when he fell and hit his head a number of months ago and was hospitalized. And I think he’s made a remarkable recovery, he’s doing a great job leading our conference and was able to answer every question the press asked him today.”
Several other GOP senators projected confidence in the Republican leader.
“I do have confidence in his leadership,” said Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis. “At lunch yesterday, he spoke. He was completely on his game using numbers that were pulled out of his head and he was completely with it. So I don’t know what precipitated the freeze, but he’ll be careful to evaluate his own capabilities.”
Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall said he was “a little concerned” after the news conference.
“He said that he got a little overheated, a little dehydrated,” said Marshall, who is also a doctor. “That’s what it looks like to me. I can tell you, he’s got a strong, strong voice in our conference. He’s providing steady leadership. And I think he’s doing a great job as leader.”
McConnell had polio in his early childhood and he has long acknowledged some difficulty as an adult in climbing stairs. In addition to his fall in March, he also tripped and fell four years ago at his home in Kentucky, causing a shoulder fracture that required surgery.
The Republican leader carried on with his full schedule after the episode on Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he spoke with his Republican counterpart at an event Wednesday evening for Major League Baseball owners.
“I said I’m so glad you’re here,” Schumer said. “And he made a very good speech.”
The Republican leader is one of several senators who have been absent due to health issues this year. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, 90, was out of the Senate for more than two months as she recovered from a bout of shingles. And Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., 53, took leave for several weeks to get treatment for clinical depression.
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Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro and AP videojournalist Mike Pesoli contributed to this report.
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The IPOR Protocol brings transparency and stability to volatile DeFi credit market
ZUG, Switzerland, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IPOR Labs AG, developers of blockchain-based derivatives software, announced today the launch of its IPOR (Inter-Protocol Overblock Rate) Protocol, which includes the IPOR Index, a standardized benchmark rate based on actual smart contract transactions, and the IPOR Interest Rate Derivatives DEX, allowing traders to hedge, arbitrage, or take a directional position on the interest rate movements to manage risk across their credit portfolios on Ethereum.
Taking a cue from traditional finance, IPOR is bringing tried and true fundamentals of the $450 trillion interest rate derivatives market to form the base layer of the DeFi credit markets. IPOR Labs AG, the firm that is developing the IPOR Protocol, was founded by crypto and TradFi market veterans. With three PhDs, quants with over 20 years in fixed income, enterprise software developers with 15 years in banking, payments, and insurance, IPOR Labs combines deep traditional and crypto finance to build the future of decentralized finance (DeFi). IPOR Labs is led by CEO Darren Camas, who has more than 11 years of experience building in crypto markets across exchange, payments, layer ones, and token infrastructure.
"In turbulent market conditions amid increasing interest rates, risk management comes to the forefront for investors, particularly in the credit markets," said IPOR Labs AG CEO Darren Camas. "Where CeFi becomes the villain, DeFi has taken a hero role, particularly in the credit markets where major platforms have functioned flawlessly during the market downturn. We're looking to offer a public good with the IPOR Index that offers a fully transparent and auditable benchmark rate and interest rate derivatives to manage risk. While the industry recoils, investors want to know how to assess and manage risks across portfolios."
The IPOR Protocol consists of two parts:
- The IPOR (Inter-Protocol Overblock Rate) Index, a LIBOR-like benchmark interest rate sourced directly from DeFi smart contracts, is the core of the protocol. Unlike the LIBOR which was discontinued due to manipulation by traders inside banks, the IPOR Index is based on transparent, auditable, and real-time smart contract interactions, leveraging the very fundamentals of blockchain technology for a trustless benchmark rate. The IPOR Index is referred to as "The Heartbeat of DeFi" as it tracks the beating heart of the credit market.
The IPOR Index is published on-chain as a public good via a bespoke oracle where protocol builders and contracts can reference the IPOR Index rates as the base for new credit markets, lending agreements, derivatives, and other structured products.
- The IPOR Interest Rate Derivatives Decentralized Exchange (DEX) - The first derivative instrument based on the IPOR Index is a 28 day cancellable swap which uses a peer-to-pool model between a trader and the liquidity pool as underwriter for both pay-fixed and receive-fixed contracts. The DEX allows traders to manage risk of interest rate volatility. The bespoke AMM relies on traditional quant models such as Hull White and jump diffusion to model and manage risk for volatile rates movements present in DeFi credit markets.
"The IPOR protocol has the potential to be the base layer of the DeFi credit markets by closing interest rate spreads and creating a de facto standard for risk-free investments. In the current state of DeFi, capital markets are extremely fragmented due to a multiplicity of money market protocols intra and inter-chain with different liquidity profiles, assets, utilization curves and risk profiles," said Michael Arrington, founder at Arrington Capital. "The obvious outcome is extreme dispersion of interest rates. IPOR addresses this issue head-on by tracking rates across protocols and generating the IPOR Index, the foundation for a cross-chain, aggregate risk-free rate."
Following an oversubscribed token round with industry leading investors such as Arrington Capital, CMT Digital, gumi Cryptos, New Form Capital, and GSR, the protocol has been under construction for the past 18 months to vet the quant and smart contract models. After nearly 90,000 wallets interacting with the protocol on testnet and over 600,000 contracts taken, the robustness and scalability of the protocol are now ready for public launch.
About IPOR Labs
Find more information, visit https://www.ipor.io/
About Arrington Capital
For more information, visit https://www.arringtoncapital.com/.
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NEW YORK — A lawyer for a Black NFL coach who sued the league alleging racist hiring practices told a judge Monday that arbitration is the wrong way to resolve the lawsuit in part because NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell would be the arbitrator and that would be “unconscionable.”
Attorney Douglas Wigdor said the league was trying to force “behind closed doors” the claims of Brian Flores and two other Black coaches. None of the coaches was present for the Manhattan federal court hearing.
It was the first hearing for a lawsuit Flores filed in February, when he claimed the league was “rife with racism” even as the NFL publicly condemns it.
Flores was fired in January as head coach by the Miami Dolphins after leading the team to a 24-25 record over three years, with two straight winning seasons including the most recent, when a 9-8 record left them out of the playoffs. He has been hired since as an assistant coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
His lawsuit was joined last month by two other coaches, Steve Wilks and Ray Horton.
There are six minority head coaches currently in the NFL, a league where the majority of the players are Black.
Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, representing the NFL, told Judge Valerie E. Caproni that the league believes all claims in the lawsuit must be moved to arbitration according to the terms of employment agreements.
Wigdor said the league demonstrated “this unconscionable bias of the arbitrator” when the NFL said the claims in the lawsuit were without merit after it was first filed. He said it would not be fair for Goodell to arbitrate the claims after he earned $120 million over the last two years from the league's teams.
Lynch said she invited the three coaches and their lawyers to meet with league officials to discuss the “important issues” surrounding racial inclusion that the NFL seeks to address.
“Today, they declined to meet with us,” she said.
Wigdor said he rejected the league's invitation to discuss racial issues because there would be no magistrate judge or judge present.
For now, the judge has put the lawsuit on the slow track, setting up a schedule stretching into August for the submission of written arguments regarding whether arbitration is required.
That schedule is likely to be delayed further once Wigdor formally informs the judge that he wants to seek permission to collect evidence surrounding the arbitration practices of the league before the issue is resolved.
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — WORTHINGTON: The first thing that a lot of people probably wanted to know: If Trump does get indicted, can he still run for president?
PROF. BENJAMIN TOLL: The answer to that question is yes.
WORTHINGTON: What if he gets convicted?
TOLL: Yes, he can still run. Nothing in the Constitution says that he is precluded or unable to run for an office at the federal level.
WORTHINGTON: Why do you think he went ahead and announced this? Even though it didn't come true on Tuesday, it still could. Why do you think he wanted to get out ahead of this?
TOLL: Well, there's a lot of power in being able to control the narrative. So for President Trump to be able to say, 'I know this is happening,' it allows him to try to take that power away from the district attorney in Manhattan, but it also allows him to try to bring the people that are on his side into his camp, to try to rally his base of supporters, to let them know that they need to be paying attention.
WORTHINGTON: A lot of Republicans right now are accusing Democrats and the prosecutors in this case of dragging this out to distract from the Hunter Biden investigation. Is that plausible? What do you make of that?
TOLL: It's an entirely plausible scenario. I think what we see in politics over the last several years is, unfortunately, we have a lot of politicians and politicians' families that are worthy of investigation and deserve to be investigated for a variety of things. Investigations, Republicans will say this is a politically motivated prosecution, and Democrats will say the exact same thing about Hunter Biden. The difficult thing for those of us who are normal people and trying to make sense of the world around us is who do we trust? And who do we believe about these conversations? Because neither of these families appear to be entirely innocent in anything that's taking place.
WORTHINGTON: It's also going to be interesting to see how this affects other presidential campaigns. We just saw yesterday Ron DeSantis — he has not announced [his candidacy] yet, but people think he's going to soon — started to finally take the gloves off, and they [he and Trump] were trading jabs with each other yesterday. So, it's interesting that this is already having an impact on the 2024 election.
TOLL: President Trump is very popular among the Republican base. And if you look at all the pre-election polling, he's leading the polls. People that are wanting to run for president have to challenge them, have to attack him, in order to try to bring him down to their level. But you have the sort of the political world that we live in. There's also the need to respond to anything that is perceived as being against the Republican Party. And so, the indictment of President Trump will probably help him among some Republican voters, and how do those challengers, those other people running for the presidency, respond to the indictment? How do they try to stick up for President Trump without liking him and trying to position themselves as different is an interesting question.
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Ex-pro wrestler, now school official, accused of transphobia
CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia school board member, who is also a retired professional wrestler, is accused of verbally harassing a transgender woman in the industry at a Los Angeles fan event.
Robert Rechsteiner, known as Rick Steiner, was banned Saturday from WrestleCon — a three-day event — after allegedly making transphobic comments to trans wrestler Gisele Shaw, news outlets reported.
Shaw claims Steiner called her a “piece of trash and filth” as she was preparing to sign autographs for fans.
“I was shocked and could not believe that this was even happening,” Shaw said in a Twitter post. “To have someone saying those comments who a lot of people look up to and consider their hero was quite shocking and disheartening.”
Steiner, 62, is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling, where he was a seven- time World Tag Team Champion and two-time winner of the Tag Team Championship under World Wrestling Entertainment.
Since 2006, Steiner has served on the Cherokee County Board of Education in Georgia. He won a fifth term in 2022 and currently serves as vice chairman. He could not be immediately reached Tuesday for comment. Efforts to reach other officials with the district were also unsuccessful as the district is on spring break.
WrestleCon apologized for Shaw’s alleged treatment in a tweet but didn’t specify what happened or whether Steiner was involved.
“WrestleCon regrets the events that took place at yesterday’s convention and apologizes to Gisele Shaw … We aim to promote a safe and inclusive environment for all LGBTQAI+ members of the wrestling community. The issue has been addressed and we hope the remainder of the convention can be a positive experience for all.”
Impact Wrestling, for whom Shaw was representing, said in a statement that it was “saddened by the incident” and hoped “everyone can learn and be better from it.”
Shaw said on Twitter that she had been bullied all her life, but that she was not going to be frightened into hiding anymore.
“The bullies in my life have always silenced me, but that ends today,” she wrote.
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The Storm Team 11 Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight with showers and thunderstorms arriving late. The low will be 68 degrees. The chance of rain is 50%.
Cloudy skies are forecast for Tuesday morning with a 60% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. Rainfall could be locally heavy at times. The high will be 84 degrees.
Mostly cloudy skies are forecast for Tuesday night with a 50% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. The low will be 67 degrees.
Partly cloudy skies are forecast for Wednesday with a 20% chance of scattered afternoon thunderstorms. The high will be 90 degrees.
Partly cloudy skies are forecast for Wednesday night with a low near 67 degrees.
Thursday will be mostly cloudy with a 60% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. The high will be 87 degrees.
Cloudy skies are forecast for Friday and Saturday with a 70% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms on both days. High temperatures will be near 83 Friday and 84 on Saturday.
Low temperatures will be in the upper 60’s. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies are forecast for Sunday and Monday with a 60% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms on both days.
The high on Sunday will be 85 degrees with a high on Monday at 75 degrees.
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DETROIT (AP) — Tesla’s sales from April through June fell to their lowest quarterly level since last fall as supply chain issues and pandemic restrictions in China hobbled production of its electric vehicles.
The company on Saturday disclosed it sold more than 254,000 cars and SUVs from April through June, an 18% drop from the first three months of this year and also well below the pace in last year’s final quarter.
The last time Tesla sold fewer vehicles globally was in the third quarter of 2021 when it delivered 241,000.
On Friday, the rest of the industry reported a 21% drop in sales during the second quarter as the average price for vehicles skyrocketed to a record of $45,844 amid soaring inflation, according to J.D. Power.
Tesla’s sales drop may be a harbinger of weaker second-quarter earnings for the Austin, Texas, company, which is the world’s top-seller of battery-powered vehicles and has posted net profits for nearly three years. Tesla plans to release its full results for the April-June period on July 20.
Like many other stocks, Tesla shares have been hard hit this year. But the 35% decline in Tesla’s stock price hasn’t been entirely tied to the company’s see-sawing fortunes.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk also has made a $44 billion bid for Twitter, which he placed on hold after complaining that it has too many spam bot users who aren’t humans. Much of the erosion in Tesla’s value has occurred since Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder and then launched a takeover bid that has raised concerns he has too much on his already crowded plate
Musk has used his own Twitter account, which now has more than 100 million followers, to discuss the pandemic restrictions that forced the Shanghai factory to temporarily close during the quarter. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives estimates that more than 40% of Tesla’s sales come from China, and that the Shanghai factory produced about 70,000 fewer vehicles due to the shutdowns.
But Tesla signaled things are getting better Saturday, saying it produced more vehicles during June than in any other month in its history. The company didn’t disclose the number of vehicles manufactured during June.
As of early Saturday afternoon, Musk hadn’t tweeted about Tesla’s second-quarter sales. But he created a bit of a stir late Friday with ending an uncharacteristically long nine-day silence on Twitter. His Friday tweets included one with him and four his children meeting with Pope Francis.
Tesla’s latest delivery numbers came out a week after the release of an interview with Musk in which he described new factories in Austin and Berlin as “money furnaces” that were losing billions of dollars because supply chain breakdowns were limiting the number of cars they can produce.
In a May 30 interview with a Tesla owners’ club that was just released last week, Musk said that getting the Berlin and Austin plants functional “are overwhelmingly our concerns. Everything else is a very small thing,” Musk said, but added that “it’s all gonna get fixed real fast.”
Musk also has discussed making salaried workers return to offices and a possible 10% cut in Tesla’s work force due to a possible recession.
Supply chain breakdowns since the onset of COVID-19 two years ago have been especially debilitating for automakers, who get parts from all corners of the globe. A lack of computer chips needed to run cars’ computers compounded automakers’ problems and sent prices for used and new cars skyrocketing.
As the pandemic erupted in the U.S. in 2020, automakers had to shut factories for eight weeks to help stop the virus from spreading. Some parts companies canceled orders for semiconductors. At the same time, demand for laptops, tablets and gaming consoles skyrocketed as people stuck at home upgraded their devices.
By the time auto production resumed, chip makers had shifted production to consumer goods, creating a shortage of weather-resistant automotive-grade chips. Although Tesla has fared better than other automakers, the industry still can’t get enough chips.
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AP Business Writer Michael Liedtke contributed to this story from Berkeley, California.
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WATCH: Amazon driver allegedly steals packages off family’s porch
SYKESVILLE, Md. (WBAL) - A Maryland family says they’re in shock after allegedly seeing an Amazon delivery driver take packages delivered by another carrier from their front porch.
Tommie Thorne ordered Christmas presents for her daughter online. UPS and Amazon delivered the packages last Tuesday, but the mother says she noticed some items were missing. She turned to her home surveillance video.
“So, we scrolled back through the cameras again, and I watched the Amazon person take them,” Tommie Thorne said.
Video shows the female Amazon driver put a package on the Thornes’ front porch and move the other packages that had already been delivered by UPS. She then picks up those packages and walks away from the home.
Tommie Thorne’s daughter, Gabrielle Thorne, decided to drive around the neighborhood about an hour and a half after the incident to see if she could find the alleged porch pirate. She discovered the Amazon van with the woman seen in the video just blocks away.
“This is insane. I wasn’t expecting to actually find her, you know what I mean? It was just shocking,” Gabrielle Thorne said.
After calling the police, the Thornes decided to approach the delivery driver.
“I did confront her. She tried to tell me that she thought it was a return, and she knew it wasn’t. An argument ensued. She threw out a few of my things at me that were opened,” Tommie Thorne said.
Police eventually showed up, and the Thornes say they were told the delivery driver was charged and the van seized.
The family has one message for others: get a camera.
“Be vigilant. And watch your deliveries, watch your emails,” Tommie Thorne said.
The Thornes said Amazon executives have been very responsive to their complaint. The company told WBAL it is looking into the incident and will cooperate with authorities as they continue to investigate.
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Stephen Curry expresses relief shoulder won’t need surgery
By KEVIN COONEY
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Stephen Curry expressed relief that his left shoulder injury would not require surgery when he met with reporters during the Golden State Warriors’ shootaround Friday. After injuring his shoulder on a defensive play Wednesday night in a loss at Indiana, Curry underwent an MRI on Thursday and was diagnosed with a left shoulder subluxation that would not require surgery. Golden State has not officially confirmed a timeline on Curry’s potential return.
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The report from the Colorado Division of Insurance found that more than 1.7 million Americans rely on sharing plans and that many of the plans require members to ask for charity care before submitting their bills.
The total membership numbers are likely even higher. The state agency collected data from 16 sharing plans across the U.S. but identified five other plans that did not report their data.
“These plans cover more people than we had previously known,” said JoAnn Volk, co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University.
Under the arrangements, members, who usually share some religious beliefs, agree to send money each month to cover other members’ health care bills. At least 11 of the sharing plans that reported data operated in or advertised plans in all 50 states in 2021.
Sharing plans do not guarantee payment for health services and are not held to the same standards and consumer protections as health insurance plans. Sharing plans are not required to cover preexisting conditions or provide the minimum health benefits mandated by the Affordable Care Act. And unlike health insurance, sharing plans can place annual or lifetime caps on payments. A single catastrophic health event can easily exceed a sharing plan’s limits.
In Colorado, at least 67,000 people were members of sharing plans in 2021, representing about 1 in 4 Coloradans purchasing health care coverage on their own. That rate concerns Kate Harris, a chief deputy commissioner of the Colorado Division of Insurance, which she said regularly receives complaints from sharing plan enrollees.
“What we hear from consumers is that when they purchase one of these, they do think there is some guarantee of coverage, for the most part, despite the disclaimers on many of the organizations’ websites,” Harris said.
The Colorado report found that health sharing arrangements often require their members to seek charity care or assistance from providers, governments, or consumer support organizations before submitting sharing requests. Those costs are then shifted to other public or private health plans.
Katy Talento, executive director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, which represents five of the largest and longest-operating sharing plans in the country, said sharing ministries encourage members to act like the uninsured people they are. Such requirements to seek charity care reflect a desire to be good stewards of their members’ money, Talento said.
“Think about it like a soup kitchen,” she said.
Fourteen sharing plans reported that Colorado members submitted a cumulative $362 million in health bills in 2021, and nearly $132 million of those requests were approved. The remainder, sharing plan executives told the division, reflected duplicative bills, ineligible charges, negotiated discounts, and the members’ agreed-upon portion of medical bills.
“It’s not like every claim line on a health care sharing request is going to be eligible for sharing,” Talento said. “They have to submit the whole bill. They can’t just pull out a piece of it.”
But consumer complaints to the Division of Insurance and to consumer assistance programs, such as the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, show that members do not always realize what sharing plans will cover.
“We have seen firsthand the risks that people face when they sign up for these arrangements without recognizing the magnitude of the risk that they’re assuming for their health care costs,” said Isabel Cruz, the initiative’s policy director.
Talento disputed the notion that members don’t know the parameters of their sharing plans.
“That’s just suggesting that our members are dumb,” she said. “Is it likely that somehow our people are going to be willy-nilly jumping blindly into something?”
Theresa Brilli, a small-business owner in Longmont, Colorado, said she and her partner signed up for a direct primary care plan in 2017 that covered primary care visits for $179 a month. Direct primary care plans are payment arrangements between patients and providers for receiving health services without billing insurance. The plan had an arrangement with Liberty HealthShare, a Canton, Ohio-based sharing plan with more than 131,000 members nationwide, to cover additional services like preventive screenings, emergency room care, and hospitalizations for $349 a month with a $1,000 deductible. The rates increased to $499 a month, with a $1,750 deductible, in 2020, Brilli said.
But Brilli said getting payments was a major hassle.
“It took about four to eight months to get reimbursed,” she said. “It was a fight, every bill.”
When she heard about enhanced subsidies for ACA marketplace plans in 2022, she decided the hassle was no longer worth it and switched to a Kaiser Permanente plan for $397 a month.
“I will never go back to Liberty Health or a health care sharing plan,” she said. “I didn’t agree with the whole ministry thing. They made you sign off saying you believed in God, which was like, ‘Whoa, I guess that’s what I have to do to get my health insurance.’”
Laura Murray, 49, of Aurora, Colorado, said she signed up for a Liberty HealthShare plan in 2017 as a more affordable alternative to her husband’s employer-based plan.
“We kind of felt we were cutting out the middleman in a way, and it was a helping-out-your-neighbor sort of deal,” she said.
But when she became pregnant unexpectedly, she had trouble getting her health bills paid. Initially, Liberty paid only a portion of the tab, and her bills got sent to a collection agency. It was only through multiple calls that she learned she needed to send the bills to a third party that would negotiate with the providers.
“It took years to get it cleared up,” she said.
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Timothy Bryan, Liberty’s vice president of marketing and communication, disputed many of the details of Brilli’s account and attributed some of the delay in payment to her “failure to submit the required supporting documentation.” Murray’s payments, he said, were delayed more than 10 months because she had failed to provide the required pre-notification.
Mike Quinlan, 42, of Denver, turned to a health sharing ministry in 2014 after the birth of his first child cost him more than $17,000 out-of-pocket, on top of nearly $24,000 in premiums that year, under an employer-sponsored health plan. He said the births of his three youngest children were covered in full by Samaritan Ministries International, a Peoria, Illinois-based sharing plan with 359,000 members, to which he contributes $600 a month. When he incurs large health expenses, he receives a slew of $600 checks from other members, he said.
Every year, Quinlan attests that he is a Christian and identifies the church he attends.
“This is a group of like-minded people who have said voluntarily we’re going to trust each other to cover each other’s health costs,” he said.
The rules differ from plan to plan. Some sharing plans require members to pledge to abide by Christian principles, and some exclude payment for out-of-wedlock births or health issues that arise from drug use. Many sharing plans exclude coverage of contraception, mental health services, and abortion, often with no exceptions for rape or safety of the mother.
Regulators in Colorado and other states have also expressed concerns that health sharing arrangements are paying brokers much higher commissions for signing up members than health plans do. That could create financial incentives to push sharing plans over health insurance without adequately educating consumers about the differences.
In 2019, Covered California, the Golden State’s ACA marketplace, instituted a requirement that its certified agents who sell both sharing plans and health insurance provide consumers with a list of disclosures about sharing plans and show them the subsidies they could receive for buying traditional health insurance coverage.
“It’s really important that consumers understand what these arrangements are, and what they are not,” said Jessica Altman, executive director of Covered California.
Harris said the Colorado Division of Insurance is investigating multiple health sharing arrangements based on consumer complaints but declined to name them.
Colorado officials are also concerned that health sharing arrangements might appeal primarily to people who don’t expect to use many health services. That could increase the proportion of sicker and more expensive patients among enrollees in traditional health insurance plans, driving up premiums.
Harris said many consumers can get a health plan for less than the cost of a sharing plan, particularly with increased federal and state subsidies put in place in recent years. State officials are also working to inform consumers of the financial risks associated with health sharing arrangements, some of which have gone bankrupt in recent years.
“It might look cheaper on its face, month to month,” Harris said. “But if they do really actually need their costs covered, there’s a real risk that they may not be.”
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NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Credit Acceptance Corporation ("CAC" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CACC). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether CAC and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On January 4, 2023, New York Attorney General Letitia James and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") issued a press release announcing that they had sued CAC "for deceiving thousands of low-income New Yorkers into high-interest car loans." The press release specified that "[t]he lawsuit alleges that CAC pushed unaffordable loans onto tens of thousands of low-income consumers throughout the state without considering their ability to repay their loans in full. CAC misstated key terms on loan agreements, including the principal and interest amounts, and did not disclose thousands of dollars in credit charges. In addition, CAC packaged these illegal loans into securities that it sold to investors. These deceptive lending practices lowered consumers' credit scores and cost New Yorkers millions of dollars. The lawsuit seeks to end CAC's abusive and deceptive practices, reform or eliminate existing CAC loan agreements, and collect restitution for impacted consumers."
On this news, CAC's stock price fell $52.99 per share, or 11.61%, to close at $403.49 per share on January 4, 2023.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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IRVING, Texas, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) announced today a collaboration with Luck Stone, the nation's largest family-owned and operated producer of crushed stone, sand and gravel, to deploy Caterpillar's autonomous solution to Luck Stone's Bull Run Plant in Chantilly, Virginia. This will be Caterpillar's first autonomous deployment in the aggregates industry and will expand the company's autonomous truck fleet to include the 100-ton-class (90-tonne-class) Cat® 777.
Looking to accelerate autonomous solutions beyond mining, Caterpillar will implement its existing Cat® MineStar™ Command for Hauling system at the Bull Run quarry, on a fleet of 777G trucks. This will allow Caterpillar to gain greater insights on quarry operations in order to tailor the next generation of autonomous solutions specific to quarry and aggregate applications. This project supports the acceleration of autonomous technology for operations with fewer mobile assets to allow a step change in safety and productivity, as currently experienced at large mining operations.
"Luck Stone and Caterpillar's partnership has been grounded in shared values for many years," said Charlie Luck, President and CEO of Luck Companies. "Together we believe that safety, innovation and a commitment to people are critical, not only to propelling important projects like this, but to ensuring our focus on the future and all of the exciting possibilities technology affords our industry. Our collaboration will provide opportunities for associates to learn and grow, improve safety and result in production efficiencies. We are thrilled to partner with Caterpillar to achieve this 'first' for our industry."
"Caterpillar has a long-standing relationship with Luck Stone, and we look forward to working together to bring the demonstrated benefits of increased safety and productivity to the quarry industry. We're excited to get in the dirt and work alongside Luck Stone's innovative team, so we can learn how to scale our already proven mining solution for another industry," said Denise Johnson, Caterpillar Group President of Resource Industries.
The current autonomy solutions will be implemented in 2024. This project builds on Caterpillar's long history in autonomy and automation. Caterpillar is recognized as the industry leader with the world's largest fleet of autonomous haul trucks, now numbering more than 560 trucks. These trucks have traveled more than 187 million kilometers and autonomously moved more than 5.1 billion tonnes – most notably – all without a single zero lost-time injury.
About Caterpillar
With 2021 sales and revenues of $51.0 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we've been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. Caterpillar does business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment. Visit us at caterpillar.com or join the conversation on our social media channels.
About Luck Stone
Through three generations of family leadership, Luck Stone has been building strong communities for 100 years. Luck Stone, a division of Luck Companies, is the nation's largest family-owned and operated producer of crushed stone, sand and gravel. A responsive and creative partner to the construction, civil engineering and environmental industries, Luck Stone provides consistent, quality aggregate materials and services that serve as the foundation of roads, bridges and buildings.
Driven by our values of Integrity, Commitment, Leadership and Creativity, we believe in providing our associates with the tools and support to perform and lead at their best so they can ignite the potential in themselves and others. Our company is a community of people, utilizing the power of values and customer inspired relationships to redefine what's possible for an industry and make a positive and enduring impact. With 29 operating locations and over 900 associates, Luck Companies is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, where it was founded by Charles Luck Jr. in 1923. Charlie Luck IV leads the company today.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release relate to future events and expectations and are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "believe," "estimate," "will be," "will," "would," "expect," "anticipate," "plan," "forecast," "target," "guide," "project," "intend," "could," "should" or other similar words or expressions often identify forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding our outlook, projections, forecasts or trend descriptions. These statements do not guarantee future performance and speak only as of the date they are made, and we do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements.
Caterpillar's actual results may differ materially from those described or implied in our forward-looking statements based on a number of factors, including, but not limited to: (i) global and regional economic conditions and economic conditions in the industries we serve; (ii) commodity price changes, material price increases, fluctuations in demand for our products or significant shortages of material; (iii) government monetary or fiscal policies; (iv) political and economic risks, commercial instability and events beyond our control in the countries in which we operate; (v) international trade policies and their impact on demand for our products and our competitive position, including the imposition of new tariffs or changes in existing tariff rates; (vi) our ability to develop, produce and market quality products that meet our customers' needs; (vii) the impact of the highly competitive environment in which we operate on our sales and pricing; (viii) information technology security threats and computer crime; (ix) inventory management decisions and sourcing practices of our dealers and our OEM customers; (x) a failure to realize, or a delay in realizing, all of the anticipated benefits of our acquisitions, joint ventures or divestitures; (xi) union disputes or other employee relations issues; (xii) adverse effects of unexpected events; (xiii) disruptions or volatility in global financial markets limiting our sources of liquidity or the liquidity of our customers, dealers and suppliers; (xiv) failure to maintain our credit ratings and potential resulting increases to our cost of borrowing and adverse effects on our cost of funds, liquidity, competitive position and access to capital markets; (xv) our Financial Products segment's risks associated with the financial services industry; (xvi) changes in interest rates or market liquidity conditions; (xvii) an increase in delinquencies, repossessions or net losses of Cat Financial's customers; (xviii) currency fluctuations; (xix) our or Cat Financial's compliance with financial and other restrictive covenants in debt agreements; (xx) increased pension plan funding obligations; (xxi) alleged or actual violations of trade or anti-corruption laws and regulations; (xxii) additional tax expense or exposure, including the impact of U.S. tax reform; (xxiii) significant legal proceedings, claims, lawsuits or government investigations; (xxiv) new regulations or changes in financial services regulations; (xxv) compliance with environmental laws and regulations; (xxvi) the duration and geographic spread of, business disruptions caused by, and the overall global economic impact of, the COVID-19 pandemic; and (xxvii) other factors described in more detail in Caterpillar's Forms 10-Q, 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Enormous progress has been achieved in the last 50 years for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the United States but unfortunately “equality is not yet within reach and in many cases not within sight” for LGBT communities, the independent U.N. expert on sexual orientation and gender identity said Tuesday.
Victor Madrigal-Borloz told a U.N. press conference after a 10-day visit to the United States that he applauds President Joe Biden for “very powerful" executive actions during his first days in office seeking to eradicate discrimination and violence against the LGBT community. But he said he is “extremely concerned” about a concerted series of actions at the state and local level based “on prejudice and stigma, to attack and to rollback the rights of LGBT persons.”
Madrigal-Borloz said that in access to health, employment, education and housing, the LGBT community suffers.
Among young adults aged 18 to 25, for example, LGBT people have a 2.2 times greater risk of homelessness, 23% of LGBT adults of color have no health coverage, and in a recent study 43% of lesbian, gay and bisexual participants reported having suffered at least one act of discrimination or harassment, he said.
Madrigal-Borloz, a Costa Rican lawyer and human rights advocate, also expressed serious concern at the disproportionate impact of violence against the LGBT community.
He cited the National Crime Victimization Survey that found that 20.3% of hate crimes were related to sexual orientation or gender identity bias, significantly disproportionate to the LGBT population in the U.S., which he said is usually estimated at between 5% and 8%. He also cited a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that found that bisexual women encountered intimate partner violence at higher rates than other populations, with 46% reporting having been raped and 74.9% reporting being victims of sexual violence other than rape, which he called “extremely worrying."
Madrigal-Borloz, who was appointed by the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, wrapped up visits to Washington, Birmingham, Alabama, Miami and San Diego at the invitation of the U.S. government. He said he met with over 70 federal, state and local representatives, more than 100 civil society representatives, and people with “lived experience” in the LGBT community.
He stressed that his comments Tuesday reflected his preliminary observations, and his final report with recommendations will be presented to the Human Rights Council in June 2023.
“The conclusion of my visit in this preliminary moment is that there are significant efforts being deployed by the current administration to dismantle systems of social exclusion,” Madrigal-Borloz said. But there is also “a significant risk that LGBT persons will be caught in what I have described as a riptide created by all of these actions at local level.”
He said NGOs and human rights defenders have found at least 280 current legislative attempts at the local level that would lead to a regression of LGBT rights, “and which also create a terribly polarizing narrative that exacerbates already high and worrisome risks of violence and discrimination.”
As examples, Madrigal-Borloz cited legislation in Alabama making it a felony to provide gender-affirming medical treatment to transgender youth and legislation in Florida nicknamed “don’t say gay” by opponents that bans teachers from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity through the third grade. He also cited limits on comprehensive sexual and gender education, and on participation in sports for transgender people.
He stressed that typically there is no evidence “that any of these measures need to be considered reasonably under a democratic society."
Madrigal-Borloz, who is also a researcher at Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program, said the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe vs. Wade and a woman’s right to abortion is also “a devastating action” for lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. That's “because it is members of these communities that actually suffer also disproportionately from unwanted teen pregnancies,” he said.
“They also require statistically more abortions," he said, “and LGBT persons in general actually benefit enormously from the services concerning sexual and reproductive health provided by abortion providers in different states, and the closure of these centers will affect disproportionately these persons."
Madrigal-Borloz said suggestions that following the Roe vs. Wade ruling, other precedents could be overturned could have a huge impact on the LGBT community, especially if gay marriage was outlawed and homosexuality became a criminal act, as it currently is in more than 65 countries.
He also pointed to early statistics showing that 98% of monkeypox cases are in men who have sex with men, which he said “concerns me greatly because it creates a risk of furthering, and retrenchment of, stigma and discrimination against this population.”
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Earthstone Energy, Inc. (NYSE: ESTE) ("Earthstone", the "Company", "we", "our" or "us"), today announced financial and operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022.
Third Quarter 2022 and Other Recent Highlights
- Repurchase of 3 million shares of Class A Common Stock for $43.7 million
- Closed the Titus Acquisition on August 10, 2022
- Net income attributable to Earthstone Energy, Inc. of $211.5 million, or $1.94 per Diluted Share
- Net income of $299.3 million, or $2.09 per Adjusted Diluted Share(1)
- Adjusted net income(1) of $186.9 million, or $1.30 per Adjusted Diluted Share(1)
- Adjusted EBITDAX(1) of $345.8 million, up 15% compared to 2Q 2022
- Net cash provided by operating activities of $365.5 million
- Free Cash Flow(1) of $174.2 million, up 6% compared to 2Q 2022
- Average net production of 94,329 Boepd(2), up 22% compared to 2Q 2022 and 7% above the midpoint of 3Q 2022 guidance
- Capital expenditures of $147.2 million
Year to Date 2022 Highlights
- Closed the Titus, Bighorn and Chisholm acquisitions
- Net income attributable to Earthstone Energy, Inc. of $322.9 million, or $3.61 per Diluted Share
- Net income of $465.5 million, or $3.66 per Adjusted Diluted Share(1)
- Adjusted net income(1) of $438.8 million, or $3.45 per Adjusted Diluted Share(1)
- Adjusted EBITDAX(1) of $769.8 million
- Net cash provided by operating activities of $703.2 million
- Free Cash Flow(1) of $374.0 million
- Average net production of 69,203 Boepd(2)
- Capital expenditures of $348.7 million
(1) See the "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section below.
(2) Represents reported sales volumes of barrels of oil and natural gas equivalent per day.
Management Comments
Robert J. Anderson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Earthstone, stated, "The Company delivered another outstanding quarter, with production, Adjusted EBITDAX, and Free Cash Flow each reaching record levels for the Company. During the quarter, we also closed on the previously announced Titus Acquisition in New Mexico, which has already contributed production, cash flow, and development inventory to the Company. This larger asset base, coupled with the continued success of our development program, drove our production to over 100,000 Boepd in September. Despite the continued volatility in commodity prices and inflationary pressures, this quarter's record results are indicative of the quality of the assets we have accumulated over the past two years. We are currently operating five drilling rigs across our more than 250,000-acre footprint. We continue to transform Earthstone with the significant operating scale we have built and our ability to leverage synergies and cost savings across our larger asset base. We are confident in our efforts to drive operating efficiencies from the higher operating cost assets acquired this year and expect the results of these efforts will be realized in future quarters."
Mr. Anderson continued, "Our third quarter well results further support the high-quality nature of our asset base. We brought nineteen operated wells online across the Delaware and Midland basins during the third quarter. Fourteen of these wells reached oil rates of over 1,000 barrels per day, with several wells approaching 1,500 barrels per day, highlighting the quality inventory we deliberately assembled through our focused acquisition efforts. Our outstanding financial and operational results are indicative of the high-quality nature of our assets which we believe will continue to create meaningful value for our shareholders. During the quarter, we used our substantial free cash flow to reduce debt, and we are pleased to end the quarter with a debt-to-annualized quarterly Adjusted EBITDAX ratio of 0.8x. With the significant Free Cash Flow we expect to generate over the coming quarters, our focus will be to continue reducing debt while evaluating accretive high-quality assets for consolidation, if available. However, we remain steadfast in our commitment to increasing shareholder value."
Operations Update
During the third quarter of 2022, for Company-operated activity, Earthstone commenced drilling 12 gross (12.0 net) wells and brought seven gross (6.3 net) wells online in the Midland Basin. The Company began drilling six gross (3.3 net) wells in the Delaware Basin and brought 12 gross (10.5 net) wells online.
In the Midland Basin, the Barnhart five-well pad in Irion County came online in August 2022 and had peak IP-30 average production of ~1,170 Boepd (~81% oil) per well. These wells averaged a completed lateral length of ~10,000 ft per well and are producing from the Wolfcamp B interval.
In the Delaware Basin, the Cletus and Salt Draw pads in Eddy County commenced production in early September. The two-well Cletus pad had peak IP-30 average production of ~1,370 Boepd (69% oil) per well, and both wells have completed lateral length of approximately 9,750 ft and are producing from the Wolfcamp A interval. The two-well Salt Draw pad had a peak IP-30 average production of ~1,570 Boepd (77% oil) per well from the Second Bone Springs interval. The two wells have a completed lateral length of approximately 4,700 ft per well. Additionally, in early September, the six drilled but uncompleted wells (Lonesome Dove and Cattlemen pads) acquired in the Titus acquisition in Lea County came online and had peak IP-30 average production of ~1,520 Boepd (73% oil) per well. All six wells had completed lateral length of approximately 7,700 ft per well and are producing from the First and Second Bone Springs interval.
The Company operated a four-rig drilling program in the third quarter with two rigs in each of the Midland and Delaware basins. Earthstone has recently added a fifth rig in the Delaware Basin and expects to continue a five-rig operated drilling program in 2023 with two rigs in the Midland Basin and three rigs in the Delaware Basin. For full year 2022 and only for Company-operated activity, Earthstone anticipates spudding 36 gross (32.4 net) wells and bringing 34 gross (30.7 net) wells online in the Midland Basin. In the Delaware Basin, the Company anticipates spudding 28 gross (18.2 net) wells and bringing 27 gross (19.3 net) wells online.
Updated 2022 Guidance
The Company is providing updated guidance for the fourth quarter of 2022 based on recent operating results and the current operating plan for the fourth quarter. On the strength of production from new wells and continued operational improvements which resulted in exceeding our third quarter production guidance, Earthstone is increasing its fourth quarter production guidance to a new range of 98,000 -102,000 Boepd (~43% oil). For the fourth quarter, the Company expects to incur $170-185 million in capital expenditures, resulting in 2022 capital expenditures of $519-534 million, representing a $12 million increase from the midpoint of prior guidance. The increase in expected capital expenditures is driven primarily by anticipated improvements in capital efficiency via an increase in the lateral length of fourth quarter wells by approximately 30% compared to our prior plan. To a lesser degree, Earthstone also anticipates higher non-operated capital activity in the fourth quarter compared to prior expectations.
Liquidity and Equity Capitalization
As of September 30, 2022, we had $642 million of long-term debt outstanding under our senior secured credit facility ("Credit Facility"), including the term loan tranche of $250 million, with elected commitments of $1.2 billion, resulting in available borrowings of approximately $558 million. As of September 30, 2022, our borrowing base was $1.85 billion.
Through September 30, 2022, we had incurred $348.7 million of capital expenditures. We expect to fund the estimated $170-185 million of fourth quarter of 2022 capital expenditures with cash flow from operations while any excess cash flow will be used to repay borrowings under our Credit Facility.
As of October 31, 2022, 105,416,926 shares of Class A Common Stock and 34,261,641 shares of Class B Common Stock were outstanding.
Commodity Hedging
Hedging Activities
The following tables set forth our outstanding derivative contracts as of September 30, 2022. When aggregating multiple contracts, the weighted average contract price is disclosed.
Hedging Update
The following tables set forth our outstanding derivative contracts at October 31, 2022. When aggregating multiple contracts, the weighted average contract price is disclosed.
Conference Call Details
Earthstone is hosting a conference call on Thursday, November 3, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern (12:00 p.m. Central) to discuss the Company's financial results for the third quarter of 2022 and its outlook for the fourth quarter of 2022. Prepared remarks by Robert J. Anderson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mark Lumpkin, Jr., Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Steven C. Collins, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, will be followed by a question and answer session.
Investors and analysts are invited to participate in the call by dialing 877-407-6184 for domestic calls or 201-389-0877 for international calls, in both cases asking for the Earthstone conference call. A webcast will also be available through the Company website (www.earthstoneenergy.com). Please select "Events & Presentations" under the "Investors" section of the Company's website and log on at least 10 minutes in advance to register.
A replay of the call and webcast will be available on the Company's website and by telephone until 1:00 p.m. Eastern (12:00 p.m. Central), Thursday, November 17, 2022. The number for the replay is 877-660-6853 for domestic calls or 201-612-7415 for international calls, using Replay ID: 13733887.
About Earthstone Energy, Inc.
Earthstone Energy, Inc. is a growth-oriented, independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, development and operation of oil and natural gas properties. The Company's primary assets are located in the Midland Basin in West Texas, the Eagle Ford Trend in South Texas and the Delaware Basin in New Mexico. Earthstone is listed on the NYSE under the symbol "ESTE." For more information, visit the Company's website at www.earthstoneenergy.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Statements that are not strictly historical statements constitute forward-looking statements and may often, but not always, be identified by the use of such words such as "expects," "believes," "intends," "anticipates," "plans," "estimates," "forecast," "guidance," "target," "potential," "possible," or "probable" or statements that certain actions, events or results "may," "will," "should," or "could" be taken, occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and analyses made by Earthstone and its management in light of experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors appropriate under the circumstances that involve various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the statements. These risks include, but are not limited to, those set forth in Earthstone's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, recent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, recent current reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") filings. Earthstone undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements except as required by law.
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Non-GAAP Financial Measures
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The non-GAAP financial measures of Adjusted Diluted Shares, Adjusted EBITDAX, Adjusted Net Income, Free Cash Flow and Operating Margin per Boe, as defined and presented below, are intended to provide readers with meaningful information that supplements our financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP"). Further, these non-GAAP measures should only be considered in conjunction with financial statements and disclosures prepared in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for GAAP measures, such as net income or loss, operating income or loss or any other GAAP measure of financial position or results of operations. Adjusted EBITDAX and Adjusted Net Income are presented herein and reconciled from the GAAP measure of net income (loss) because of their wide acceptance by the investment community as a financial indicator.
I. Adjusted Diluted Shares
We define "Adjusted Diluted Shares" as the weighted average shares of Class A Common Stock - Diluted outstanding plus the weighted average shares of Class B Common Stock outstanding.
Our Adjusted Diluted Shares is a non-GAAP financial measure that provides a comparable per share measurement when presenting results such as Adjusted EBITDAX and Adjusted Net Income that include the interests of both Earthstone and the noncontrolling interest. Adjusted Diluted Shares is used in calculating several metrics that we use as supplemental financial measurements in the evaluation of our business, none of which should be considered as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income as an indicator of operating performance.
Adjusted Diluted Shares for the periods indicated:
II. Adjusted EBITDAX
The non-GAAP financial measure of Adjusted EBITDAX (as defined below), as calculated by us below, is intended to provide readers with meaningful information that supplements our financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. Further, this non-GAAP financial measure should only be considered in conjunction with financial statements and disclosures prepared in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for GAAP measures, such as net income or loss, operating income or loss or any other GAAP measure of financial position or results of operations. Adjusted EBITDAX is presented herein and reconciled from the GAAP measure of net income (loss) because of its wide acceptance by the investment community as a financial indicator.
We define "Adjusted EBITDAX" as net income (loss) plus, when applicable, accretion of asset retirement obligations; depreciation, depletion and amortization; interest expense, net; transaction costs; (gain) on sale of oil and gas properties; exploration expense; unrealized (gain) loss on derivative contracts; stock-based compensation (non-cash and expected to settle in cash); and income tax expense (benefit).
Our Adjusted EBITDAX measure provides additional information that may be used to better understand our operations. Adjusted EBITDAX is one of several metrics that we use as a supplemental financial measurement in the evaluation of our business and should not be considered as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income (loss) as an indicator of operating performance. Certain items excluded from Adjusted EBITDAX are significant components in understanding and assessing a company's financial performance, such as a company's cost of capital and tax structure, as well as the historic cost of depreciable and depletable assets. Adjusted EBITDAX, as used by us, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. We believe that Adjusted EBITDAX is a widely followed measure of operating performance and is one of many metrics used by our management team and by other users of our consolidated financial statements. For example, Adjusted EBITDAX can be used to assess our operating performance and return on capital in comparison to other independent exploration and production companies without regard to financial or capital structure and to assess the financial performance of our assets and our Company without regard to capital structure or historical cost basis.
The following table provides a reconciliation of Net income (loss) to Adjusted EBITDAX for the periods indicated:
III. Adjusted Net Income
We define "Adjusted Net Income" as net income (loss) plus, when applicable, unrealized (gain) loss on derivative contracts; (gain) on sale of oil and gas properties; transaction costs; and the associated changes in estimated income tax.
Our Adjusted Net Income is a non-GAAP financial measure that provides additional information that may be used to further understand our operations. Adjusted Net Income is one of several metrics that we use as a supplemental financial measurement in the evaluation of our business and should not be considered as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income (loss) as an indicator of operating performance. Certain items excluded from Adjusted Net Income are significant components in understanding and assessing a company's financial performance, such as a company's cost of capital and tax structure, as well as the historic cost of depreciable and depletable assets. Adjusted Net Income, as used by us, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. We believe that Adjusted Net Income is a widely followed measure of operating performance and is one of many metrics used by our management team and by other users of our consolidated financial statements. For example, Adjusted Net Income can be used to assess our operating performance and return on capital in comparison to other independent exploration and production companies without regard to financial or capital structure and to assess the financial performance of our assets and our Company without regard to capital structure or historical cost basis.
The following table provides a reconciliation of Net income (loss) to Adjusted Net Income for the periods indicated:
IV. Free Cash Flow
Free Cash Flow is a non-GAAP financial measure that we use as an indicator of our ability to fund our development activities and reduce our leverage. We define Free Cash Flow as Net cash provided by operating activities; less (1) Settlement of asset retirement obligations, Gain on sale of office and other equipment, Amortization of deferred financing costs and Change in assets and liabilities from the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows; plus (2) Transaction costs, Exploration expense and the current portion of Income tax (expense) benefit from the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations; less (3) Capital expenditures (accrual basis). Alternatively, Free Cash Flow could be defined as Adjusted EBITDAX (defined above), less interest expense, less the current portion of income tax expense, less accrual-based capital expenditures.
Management believes that Free Cash Flow, which measures our ability to generate additional cash from our business operations, is an important financial measure for use in evaluating the Company's financial performance. Free Cash Flow should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, consolidated net income as a measure of our performance and net cash provided by operating activities as a measure of our liquidity.
Free Cash Flow for the periods indicated:
Alternate calculation of Free Cash Flow for the periods indicated:
V. Operating Margin per Boe and Operating Margin per Boe (Including Realized Hedge Settlements)
Operating Margin per Boe is a non-GAAP financial measure that we use to evaluate our operating performance on a per Boe basis. We define Operating Margin per Boe as average realized price per Boe minus lease operating expense per BOE and production and ad valorem taxes per Boe. Operating Margin per Boe (including Realized Hedge Settlements) is calculated as the sum of Operating Margin per Boe and Realized hedge settlements per Boe.
Our Operating Margin per Boe measure provides additional information that may be used to further understand our operating margins. We use Operating Margin per Boe as a supplemental financial measurement in the evaluation of our operational performance. We believe that investors benefit from having access to the same financial measures that our management uses in evaluating our results. Operating Margin per Boe should not be considered as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income (loss) as an indicator of operating performance. Operating Margin per Boe, as used by us, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
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Performance artist Yánin Arroyo López and musician Gerardo Calderón will present Tati’s Dreams at the Coos Bay Public Library on Saturday, April 29, from 4-5 p.m. as part of the library’s celebration of el Día de los Niños.
Designed for children and families, the event is free to the public and will be entirely in Spanish. In addition to the performance, free books for kids and bilingual take and make kits provided by Marshfield ‘s LatinX club will be available during the library’s open hours on Saturday.
Tati’s Dreams combines dance, theater and clowning with the music of Gerardo Calderón. The interactive performance centers around a girl named Tati who shares stories about people throughout history who believed in their dreams and changed the world.
The show is a collaborative effort between Yánin Arroyo López and Gerardo Calderón. López is a professional actress, clown, and educator from Mexico with a background in performance art and psychology. Born in Mexico City, Calderón is a composer, teaching artist, producer and multi-instrumentalist and the musical director of Grupo Condor and Nuestro Canto. Calderón spends part of the year performing in Oregon.
Día is a celebration every day of children, families, and reading that culminates every year on April 30. The celebration emphasizes the importance of advocating literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. It is an annual celebration of the joys and wonders of childhood and the importance of literacy in the lives of families.
Funding for the theatrical performance was provided by the South Coast Educational Services District to support bilingual families on the South Coast.
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CNN's coverage of Trump indictment after Chris Licht firing shows echoes of more partisan Jeff Zucker era
Jake Tapper scolds producers for showing Trump with supporters in Miami: 'That's enough of that'
CNN's approach to covering the historic federal indictment Tuesday of former President Trump appeared to show the network leaning back into the earlier Jeff Zucker era not long after the firing of CEO Chris Licht.
Licht said he wanted to dial back the more partisan approach that defined his predecessor Zucker, but he faced internal dissension throughout his tenure, which came to a head when he offered former President Trump a chance to appear in a CNN town hall last month. Licht was fired last week after a little more than a year on the job, having lost the faith of both the newsroom and Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.
Licht was publicly criticized by reporters such as Christiane Amanpour for airing the Trump town hall, while Anderson Cooper told viewers he understood if they decided to ditch CNN forever for airing it.
Since Licht was shown the door last week, the network has reminded viewers of the Zucker-era programming that appealed to anti-Trump liberals.
Jake Tapper, who reportedly complained about Licht to corporate overlords, told CNN audiences on Tuesday night that it would be "dangerous" to carry a Trump speech live.
"We’re not carrying his remarks live because, frankly, he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous," Tapper told viewers.
Earlier in the day, Tapper rebuked CNN producers for showing Trump with supporters at a Miami restaurant.
CNN, MSNBC REFUSE TO AIR 'POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS' TRUMP SPEECH TO SUPPORTERS
"The folks in the control room, I don't need to see any more of that," Tapper said. "He's trying to turn this into a spectacle, a campaign ad. That's enough of that."
In his media newsletter "Reliable Sources," CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy took a shot at his former boss as he gloated about CNN not airing the speech. Darcy is often sharply critical of right-wing media and Republicans.
"The move to not air Trump's remarks live notably represented a departure from how the network handled Trump's post-New York arraignment speech. In that case, under former boss Chris Licht, CNN aired most of Trump's remarks," Darcy wrote in CNN’s media newsletter.
Darcy’s crusade against Licht picked up steam following the network’s now-infamous Trump town hall. "It's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening," Darcy wrote.
JAKE TAPPER SCOLDS CNN PRODUCERS FOR SHOWING TRUMP WITH MIAMI SUPPORTERS" ‘THAT IS ENOUGH OF THAT'
Darcy was then summoned for a meeting with Licht and other top CNN executives, who reprimanded him for "emotional" coverage.
CNN is being run by a trio of Zucker-era holdovers on an interim basis, all of whom rose to prominence at the company during the Trump administration when resistance-style coverage catering to a left-leaning audience was embraced by leadership.
During Trump’s fiery speech to supporters Tuesday night that Tapper refused to air, the former president cast his "sham" federal indictment as "election interference" by the Biden administration, and "the most heinous abuse of power in the history of our country." He faces potentially spending the rest of his life in prison.
Trump also blasted Special Counsel Jack Smith as a "deranged lunatic," and accused President Biden of having "his top political opponent arrested and charged." He said he had undergone "political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation."
CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Fox News’ Kristine Parks and Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
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- Mean Annualized Bleed Rate Reduced by 80% from Baseline and Factor VIII Usage Reduced by 94% in Year 3 Compared to Baseline
- 92% of Patients off Prophylaxis at the End of Year 3
- First Outcomes-Based Agreement (OBA) Recently Signed in Germany; Additional Agreements Expected to be Signed in Coming Weeks
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration Pre-License Inspection of Manufacturing Facility Complete
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Jan. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: BMRN), a global biotechnology company dedicated to transforming lives through genetic discovery, today announced positive results from more than three years of follow up from its ongoing global Phase 3 GENEr8-1 study of ROCTAVIANTM (valoctocogene roxaparvovec), an investigational one-time gene therapy for the treatment of adults with severe hemophilia A. This is the largest and longest global Phase 3 study to date for any gene therapy in hemophilia with 134 participants.
The ROCTAVIAN data are summarized in the following table:
P values for all primary and secondary endpoint comparisons were <0.001 and include the entire treatment period.
In response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s request, and consistent with the FDA's guidance for other gene therapy trials for hemophilia, BioMarin has also analyzed annualized bleeding rate for all bleeds, regardless of whether those bleeds were treated with exogenous Factor VIII replacement. Results from that analysis were similar to those reflected in the table above. In Year 3, the mean/median ABR for all bleeds was 1.4/0.0, and in Year 4 the mean/median ABR for all bleeds was 1.6/1.0.
At the end of Year 3, 92% of patients remained off prophylaxis. Those patients who returned to Factor VIII or emicizumab prophylaxis did so safely.
"We continue to learn more about the durability, safety and efficacy of valoctocogene roxaparvovec," said Steven Pipe, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology at the University of Michigan and an investigator in the Phase 3 study. "I am encouraged to see the consistent clinical response and the significant number of study participants who remain off prophylaxis after three years. This shows the potential transformative impact of this single treatment event for people with severe hemophilia A."
BioMarin plans to present additional data from this study at upcoming medical meetings.
"The three-year data reinforce our belief that ROCTAVIAN has the potential to fundamentally transform the treatment of severe hemophilia A for patients and eliminate the burden of prophylaxis," said Hank Fuchs, M.D., President of Worldwide Research and Development at BioMarin. "We look forward to sharing these data with the FDA as part of our ongoing regulatory review. We remain grateful to the bleeding disorders community for its support of our robust clinical program."
As the company has previously indicated, BioMarin is targeting outcomes-based agreements (OBAs) with the three largest health insurance groups that represent about 80% of German lives. The company has executed an OBA with one of the three. The company expects to sign additional agreements in the coming weeks in Germany and continues to progress the European launch of ROCTAVIAN on a country-by-country basis, including meetings with authorities in France and the submission of the reimbursement dossier in Italy.
For covered patients, the agreements provide for companion diagnostic testing and reimbursement of ROCTAVIAN, allowing physicians to prescribe and patients to be treated with therapy.
The OBAs in Germany are multiyear agreements that cover payer risk of patients potentially returning to prophylaxis through direct BioMarin financial commitment in return for substantial and full upfront payment.
"We continue to see a high level of interest from physicians in Germany. Treatment centers are ready to go, and our market research indicates that there are approximately 40 patients queued up for pre-treatment screening," said Jeff Ajer, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of BioMarin. "We are pleased that these outcomes-based agreements will enable access for individuals with severe hemophilia A."
Overall, to date, a single 6e13 vg/kg dose of valoctocogene roxaparvovec has been well tolerated with no delayed-onset treatment related adverse events (AEs). In Year 3, no new treatment-related serious adverse events or Grade 3 events attributed to valoctocogene roxaparvovec or corticosteroid use emerged.
The most common AEs associated with valoctocogene roxaparvovec have occurred early and included transient infusion associated reactions and mild to moderate rise in liver enzymes with no long-lasting clinical sequelae. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevation, a laboratory test of liver function, has remained the most common adverse drug reaction. Other adverse reactions have included aspartate aminotransferase (AST) elevation (101 participants, 63%), nausea (55 participants, 34%), headache (54 participants, 34%), and fatigue (44 participants, 28%). No participants have developed inhibitors to Factor VIII, thromboembolic events or malignancy associated with valoctocogene roxaparvovec.
These data will be shared with the FDA as part of the agency's ongoing review of the Biologics License Application (BLA) of ROCTAVIAN. The PDUFA date is March 31, 2023, subject to possible agency extension.
Additionally, the FDA completed a Pre-License Inspection of the manufacturing facility in early December. BioMarin has provided responses to the comments and observations received at the close of the inspection, and the company believes all are addressable.
The FDA granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to valoctocogene roxaparvovec in March 2021. RMAT is an expedited program intended to facilitate development and review of regenerative medicine therapies, such as valoctocogene roxaparvovec, that are expected to address an unmet medical need in patients with serious conditions. The RMAT designation is complementary to Breakthrough Therapy Designation, which the company received for valoctocogene roxaparvovec in 2017.
In addition to the RMAT Designation and Breakthrough Therapy Designation, BioMarin's valoctocogene roxaparvovec also received orphan drug designation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and FDA for the treatment of severe hemophilia A. Orphan drug designation is reserved for medicines treating rare, life-threatening, or chronically debilitating diseases. The European Commission (EC) granted conditional marketing authorization to valoctocogene roxaparvovec gene therapy under the brand name ROCTAVIAN on August 24, 2022.
The global Phase 3 GENEr8-1 study evaluates superiority of valoctocogene roxaparvovec at the 6e13 vg/kg dose compared to the current standard of care, FVIII prophylactic therapy. All study participants had severe hemophilia A at baseline, defined as less than or equal to 1 IU/dL of Factor VIII activity. The study included 134 total participants, all of whom had a minimum of 36 months of follow-up at the time of the data cut. The first 22 participants were directly enrolled into the Phase 3 study, 17 of whom were HIV-negative and dosed at least 48 months or 4 years prior to the data cut date. The remaining 112 participants (rollover population) completed at least six months in a separate non-interventional study to prospectively assess bleeding episodes, Factor VIII use, and health-related quality of life while receiving Factor VIII prophylaxis prior to rolling over to receive a single infusion of valoctocogene roxaparvovec in the GENEr8-1 study.
BioMarin has multiple clinical studies underway in its comprehensive gene therapy program for the treatment of severe hemophilia A. In addition to the global Phase 3 study GENEr8-1 and the ongoing Phase 1/2 dose escalation study, the company is also conducting a Phase 3, single arm, open-label study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of valoctocogene roxaparvovec at a dose of 6e13 vg/kg with prophylactic corticosteroids in people with severe hemophilia A (Study 270-303). Also ongoing is a Phase 1/2 Study with the 6e13 vg/kg dose of valoctocogene roxaparvovec in people with severe hemophilia A with pre-existing AAV5 antibodies (Study 270-203) and a Phase 1/2 Study with the 6e13 vg/kg dose of valoctocogene roxaparvovec in people with severe hemophilia A with active or prior Factor VIII inhibitors (Study 270-205).
Hemophilia A, also called Factor VIII deficiency or classic hemophilia, is an X-linked genetic disorder caused by missing or defective Factor VIII, a clotting protein. Although it is passed down from parents to children, about 1/3 of cases are caused by a spontaneous mutation, a new mutation that was not inherited. Approximately 1 in 10,000 people have hemophilia A.
People living with hemophilia A lack sufficient functioning Factor VIII protein to help their blood clot and are at risk for painful and/or potentially life-threatening bleeds from even modest injuries. Additionally, people with the most severe form of hemophilia A (Factor VIII levels <1%) often experience painful, spontaneous bleeds into their muscles or joints. Individuals with the most severe form of hemophilia A make up approximately 50% of the hemophilia A population. People with hemophilia A with moderate (Factor VIII 1-5%) or mild (Factor VIII 5-40%) disease show a much-reduced propensity to bleed. Individuals with severe hemophilia A are treated with a prophylactic regimen of intravenous Factor VIII infusions administered 2-3 times per week (100-150 infusions per year) or a bispecific monoclonal antibody that mimics the activity of Factor VIII administered 1-4 times per month (12-48 injections or shots per year). Despite these regimens, many people continue to experience breakthrough bleeds, resulting in progressive and debilitating joint damage, which can have a major impact on their quality of life.
Founded in 1997, BioMarin is a global biotechnology company dedicated to transforming lives through genetic discovery. The company develops and commercializes targeted therapies that address the root cause of the genetic conditions. BioMarin's unparalleled research and development capabilities have resulted in eight transformational commercial therapies for patients with rare genetic disorders. The company's distinctive approach to drug discovery has produced a diverse pipeline of commercial, clinical, and pre-clinical candidates that address a significant unmet medical need, have well-understood biology, and provide an opportunity to be first-to-market or offer a substantial benefit over existing treatment options. For additional information, please visit www.biomarin.com.
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New research from Cassandra reveals 53% find food inspiration via social apps like TikTok
NEW YORK, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Being a "foodie" is now a central component of the Gen Z identity –according to a recent study released by Cassandra, ENGINE's insights and strategy group that studies trendsetting young consumers. According to the report, Young & Hungry, Gen Z considers themselves the "foodie" generation – fueled by a desire to discover new recipes and finding inspiration to become at-home chefs through social media platforms such as TikTok. As their relationship with food is shifting, more Gen Zs are embracing a holistic attitude about food that transcends taste and calories and also factors in food morality, nutrition and its impact on mental health.
Young & Hungry, was crafted through Cassandra's qualitative and quantitative research, which spoke to more than 1500 US and UK youth between the ages 14 to 34. The report unwraps how young people are consuming food, how they're consuming culinary content online and how, when, why and what they're cooking and finding inspiration.
To say that food matters to young consumers is an understatement. More than half of all Gen Z respondents stated that what they eat is indicative of who they are as a person. As food has become a bigger part of Gen Z's identity, their food morality has shifted away from calories as a moral measure for "good" and "bad" food, instead prioritizing taste, nutrition, and overall improvement of mental health. In fact, 47% of Gen Z surveyed stated that in the next few years, they will be prioritizing more mental health focused eating.
Still, a quarter of Gen Z continues to view diet culture as a modern trend. While seeing through the algorithm is a trait of today's youth, it's critical that the corners of the internet that push harmful diet culture are taken into account as 1 in 4 Gen Z and Millennial see diet-focused eating trending up.
"Gen Z is truly leaving its mark on everything it touches – and the food industry is no exception," said Kathy Sheehan, Senior Vice President, Cassandra. "Gen Z is changing the face of the industry, putting a greater emphasis on a holistic approach to food and using it as a way to express themselves. As a result, the industry is growing and Gen Z has become its coveted, but elusive audience. A question still lingers: where can Gen Z be reached and it is looking more and more likely that they are turning to social media, TikTok in particular, to explore this newfound love for food."
TikTok's influence on food and the industry as a whole has become undeniable. 53% of Gen Z respondents say they find inspiration for new foods through the popular social media app. TikTok has become an important tool for brands, informing more than just marketing strategies these days. Major food companies are developing entirely new product lines based on movements that spin up on the app. Not to mention, the rise of "food influencers" on TikTok stemming from overnight stardom through viral videos.
Gen Z is all about discovery, and food is no exception. They are eager for unique culinary experiences and are adventurous eaters. Due to the pandemic, Gen Z has become self-taught at-home chefs, thanks to the help of social media. This trend doesn't appear to be slowing down anytime soon as Gen Z has found a new way to be authentically themselves and brands and marketers should be taking note.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s newly elected president — the third since the Himalayan nation abolished its centuries-old monarchy in 2008 and became a republic — took the oath of office Monday in Kathmandu.
Ram Chandra Poudel was elected Thursday by members of the Federal Parliament and provincial assemblies. Top officials, diplomats and Parliament members lined up to congratulate the new president at the ceremony where the military band played national songs and gave him a salute.
Outgoing President Bidhya Devi Bhandari, having completed the maximum two terms in office, passed the position on immediately after the swearing-in ceremony.
The president is largely a figurehead with little political power. But the election triggered a feud among partners in the governing alliance headed by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who took office in December after a hung parliament left a fragile coalition government.
Dahal backed Poudel, who is also now the supreme commander of the Nepalese army, angering his main coalition partner, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), which backed Subash Chandra Nembang, its own candidate.
The party has since pulled out of the coalition, threatening Dahal’s control.
Dahal has since lost the support of three key political parties that were part of his initial coalition government, and must seek a vote of confidence in parliament later in March to continue in power.
There was no clear explanation of why Dahal decided to back the opposition candidate and endanger his alliance, but struggles for power among the main political parties are common. The country has had eight different governments in the past 10 years.
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Torture, forced abortions and insects for food: Life inside North Korean jails, says this NGO
By Yoonjung Seo, Andrew Raine and Gawon Bae, CNN
Extrajudicial executions, rape, forced abortions, jail without trial, torture, starvation rations that leave prisoners so hungry some turn to eating insects.
These are just some of the abuses commonplace in North Korean prisons and other detention facilities, according to former detainees whose testimony forms the basis of a new report released by a human rights watchdog this week.
Using interviews with hundreds of survivors, witnesses and perpetrators of abuse who have fled the country, along with official documents, satellite images, architectural analysis and digital modeling of penal facilities, the non-profit NGO Korea Future has built up what it says is the most detailed picture yet of life inside the secretive country’s penal system.
“The purpose of our report is basically to reveal the human rights violations that have taken place within North Korea’s penal systems. (It) finds that even 10 years after the UN established a Commission of Inquiry there still is systematic and widespread human rights violations,” said Kim Jiwon, an investigator with Korea Future, which has offices in London, Seoul and The Hague and focuses on human rights issues in North Korea.
Alongside constructing 3D models of some of the detention sites, the group has documented what it believes are more than 1,000 instances of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, hundreds of instances of rape and other forms of sexual violence and more than 100 cases of denial of the right to life.
“Comparable to the Soviet Gulag, (North Korea’s) penal system is not to detain and rehabilitate persons sentenced by courts in safe and humane facilities. Nor is its purpose to decrease recidivism and increase public safety,” the report says.
“It is to isolate persons from society whose behaviour conflicts with upholding the singular authority of the Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un.”
The report states it has identified hundreds of active participants it alleges have participated in the violence and is calling for investigations and prosecutions for the abuses. Korea Future used witness testimony and satellite imagery to map 206 detention facilities, across every North Korean province, alleging that abuses are personally carried out by officials as high-ranking as major generals.
A 3D model of one of the detention centers, recreated by CNN with information from Korea Future.
The report makes for grim reading. Among the cases it highlights are those of three people jailed after trying to cross the border — a punishable crime in this country. The group alleges one was forced to have an abortion when seven or eight months pregnant; another was fed as little as 80 grams (less than 3 ounces) of corn a day, a starvation diet that saw his weight drop from 60 kilograms (132 pounds) to 37 kilograms (82 pounds) within a month and forced him to supplement his diet with cockroaches and rodents; a third was forced to hold stress positions for up to 17 hours a day for 30 days. Other survivors, who spoke to CNN, recounted surviving on animal feed and becoming skeletally thin, witnessing rapes and being subject to severe beatings.
Korea Future is hoping other countries will consider pursuing domestic court cases against North Korean agents and that some of its findings can be used as evidence. And, it hopes western countries will apply targeted sanctions against some of the accused in the report.
Due to North Korea’s self-imposed isolation, which has become even stricter since the country closed its borders in 2020 in response to Covid-19, CNN cannot independently verify the accounts.
However, the conditions outlined in the report are in line with the findings of recent investigations by the United Nations, including a report to the UN Human Rights council this week by Special Rapporteur Elizabeth Salmón, who said women detained in political prison camps were “subjected to torture and ill-treatment, forced labor and gender-based violence, including sexual violence by state officials.”
A reconstruction by Korea Future of detainees (in blue) carrying out forced labour in a North Korean field. The prison guard is in orange.
The hermit country is known as one of the most closed and repressive nations in the world. CNN has sought comment from North Korea’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York for comment, but it has not responded.
North Korea frequently denies allegations of human rights abuses — in its prisons or elsewhere — often claiming they are part of a US-orchestrated campaign against it. This week, soon after a UN meeting on the human rights situation in the country, North Korea released a statement saying it “resolutely denounces and rejects” what it characterized as a “US-waged human rights pressure campaign.”
“That such a country takes issue with the ‘human rights’ situation of other countries is indeed a mockery of and an insult to human rights itself,” reads the statement.
Referring to a joint military exercise between the US and South Korea, it claimed the US was using its “human rights maneuver as a mechanism for invading” North Korea.
‘I didn’t feel like I was a human being’
Investigators from both Korea Future and the UN say many inmates become so dehumanized by the abuse that they begin to feel they somehow deserve it. Many, too, simply have no concept of human rights with which to frame their experience.
One former inmate, who says she was detained for little over a year from 2015 after complaining to authorities over her housing situation, likened her treatment to that of an animal.
“When we raise rabbits, we keep them in dens with fences and give them food. (In jail), it was like we were the rabbits, kept in a cell and given food from behind bars … we were not treated as humans, but as some kind of animal,” said the survivor, whose name CNN has agreed to protect as in North Korea the families of defectors can face retribution.
The location of North Hamgyong provincial holding centre, according to co-ordinates supplied by Korea Future to CNN.
At one point her cell was around two square meters (21.5 square feet), “and I know this because we were sleeping zig-zag stye and someone’s feet were touching my shoulders.”
“We should not move in the cell and we had to sit with our hands on our sides and as we were not supposed to look up we had to look down. We were not supposed to talk, so all you hear is people’s breathing sound.”
She described being fed only corn mixed with rice bran — more commonly used as animal feed.
“How can it be enough? When you eat breakfast, from the moment you put down your spoon, you’re hungry. It’s all grass and no nutrition so you get hungry as you don’t even feel the food inside your stomach.
“All your nutrition in your body is gone so you end up looking like a skeleton by the time you leave, just right before dying.” She was released after a little more than a year inside.
“I didn’t feel like I was a human being. I thought it would’ve been better to be dead if I had to live like that.”
Political prisoners
North Korea has long faced claims of torture and abuse in its political prison camps, known as “kwalliso”.
A landmark UN investigation in 2014 found that Pyongyang was using this type of camp to keep a lid on dissent — and the ruling Kim dynasty in power — and that up to 120,000 people were held in them. It also estimated that over the past few decades hundreds of thousands of political prisoners had died in kwalliso amid “unspeakable atrocities.”
Among Korea Future’s key contentions is that similar methods of abuse are being used “systematically” in ordinary prisons, known as “kyohwaso,” and other penal institutes such as holding centers and prosecution offices.
Not only that, but it says the abuse in these centers is “greater in scale … than in better-known political prison camps” and that while some of the people held in kyohwaso are accused of standard crimes, such as theft, many are being held essentially as political prisoners.
The report places responsibility on North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un.
“The purpose of (North Korea’s) penal system is to isolate persons from society whose behaviour conflicts with upholding the singular authority of the Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un,” states the report.
“Detainees are re-educated through forced labour, ideological instruction, and punitive brutality with the purpose of compelling unquestioning obedience and loyalty to the Supreme Leader.”
‘They just didn’t have the concept of torture’
Kim Jiwon, the Korea Future investigator who interviewed many of the survivors, praised their courage in speaking up, adding that he had found it was “really, really difficult to hear their stories.”
“I can’t even fathom how they felt, and what they had to go through,” he said.
While difficult, asking the survivors to relive their experiences and cross checking their accounts against each other had been vital in corroborating and building up a picture of what had occurred, Kim said.
Among the things that had struck him during the interviews was that, so dehumanizing had their treatment been, that many “just didn’t have the concept of torture.”
“They were always told by the penal facility, the correctional officers, that they had done something bad. So they just simply thought that they were bad people and for that reason, they were being punished. This was very ingrained in their mindset,” Kim said.
“They didn’t even realize that they were being subjected to torture.”
A 3D model of one of the detention centers, recreated by CNN with data from Korea Future.
‘I thought I couldn’t live like this’
A male survivor whose testimony was used in the Korea Future report told CNN he had been detained multiple times for defection, including in 2000 and 2017, after making his way across the border with China to seek work.
While he described seeing prison guards raping women detainees, being beaten up and forced to walk around with his body bowed at a right angle during one spell in jail, he said the conditions were an improvement on his first experience.
“In the past, we had to crawl with both hands and knees when we were moving, but in 2017, we could stand up and walk. All you needed was to bend your back forward 90 degrees when moving,” he said.
He said as many as five people would be held in a single 6.6 square meter room (71 square feet) that had no heating, but that at least in 2017 they were given blankets to help them cope with the cold — winter temperatures in North Korea can fall as low as minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 23 degrees Celsius) — unlike when he was imprisoned in 2000, when they were given nothing.
He even went as far as to describe some periods of his detention as “no stress,” at one point moving to a center where there were no beatings or torture and thinking “wow, Korea has been changed.”
But he painted a bleaker picture of one holding center. “I noticed the center guards were raping female detainees at night. They’d ask some women to wash their clothes at night and when the women came out they raped (them)… I thought some things haven’t changed after all these years.”
A survivor from a North Korean detention center speaks to CNN.
He said he told an inspector what he had seen and that initially he was thanked for bringing the matter up, but soon afterward two men beat him up “so hard.”
Soon afterward, “I thought I couldn’t live like this so I broke the window in the room and grabbed a piece of glass,” he said. “The police guard came into my room and in front of them I stabbed my tummy.”
Despite all this, he said it was better to focus on those aspects that had improved — likening it to encouraging a child, saying that focusing purely on bad behavior would not encourage them to change for the better. He said in 2017 he received three meals a day and the same food as the police were eating, unlike in 2000 when his rations were only vegetable soup.
“We were used to being called like sons of bitches back in 2000,” he said. “But in 2017, we were called comrades.”
‘A crime against humanity’
James Heenan, representative of the UN Human Rights Office in Seoul, said many escapees simply didn’t have a concept of human rights; one of the first steps in helping them was to educate them so they could recognize that what had happened to them was abuse.
“Generally they tell us the raw, unadulterated version of what happened to them and sometimes they see it as a bad thing. Sometimes I think that’s just the way the system works. (They think,) ‘I was beaten because I deserved it.’ So the issue of knowledge of human rights is a key one.”
Heenan said the abuse fit into four main categories.
Firstly, people were being detained arbitrarily and either not given a trial or given a show trial, without a lawyer, that might be as short as 10 minutes, he said. Secondly, people were being tortured and subject to other forms of ill treatment related to health, food and sanitation that could be “tantamount to torture if it’s done in a certain way,” he said.
James Heenan, of the UN Human Rights Office, speaks to CNN.
Thirdly, “We also see the issue of extrajudicial executions in prison, people who are just executed from prison without trial are subjected to the death penalty,” he said. “And the final thing that we see (is) forced labor. People in prisons, in detention, are forced to work in inhumane conditions for no pay for the profit of the state. And this is one of the most widespread violations we see.”
After the outbreak of Covid-19 prompted North Korea to shut down its few remaining connections with the outside world, it became harder to know what was happening in the detention centers, Heenan added. While prior to that, some escapees like the one who spoke to CNN, had suggested “limited improvements” with perhaps fewer cases of torture and extrajudicial killings, he cautioned against drawing too many conclusions from this saying there were too many “blind spots.”
“(For instance), many people are sent to political prison camps on lists, and not many people leave — they’re there for life until they die. So firsthand experience of most of these centers has always been difficult to come by,” he said.
But rights groups could be confident that such abuses were still occurring, he said, and that the situation was “still very dire,” because the testimonies of survivors were cross-checked for consistency, or “triangulated,” not only against other survivors but against medical evidence of their injuries and in some cases satellite evidence.
“These individuals are telling consistent stories … you also have the sheer weight of testimony, he said.
“In these cases, the weight of evidence, the weight of testimony is very, very strong.”
The situation in detention facilities was “one of the most egregious examples of the (human rights) violations we see (in North Korea),” Heenan added.
“And this is what the UN Commission (and most others) have concluded, that the things like torture and ill treatment and so forth that are going on in those facilities reaches the level of a crime against humanity.”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man is in custody after being accused of sending about three-dozen feces-filled letters to lawmakers around the country, including Ohio’s 25 Republican state senators in early July.
Police arrested Richard Steinle, a 77-year-old from Mogadore, Ohio, and former Portage County Common Pleas Court mediator on Friday. Steinle is charged with sending “injurious articles as nonmailable,” violating a federal law that prohibits mailing certain things, including hazardous material, according to court records.
The misdemeanor charge carries a maximum prison sentence of one year and a $100,000 fine. A message seeking comment was left with Steinle's lawyer.
The feces mailed in early July prompted an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, but investigators said Steinle has been sending such letters since August 2021 to elected officials in Washington D.C., Kentucky, California and Ohio.
Mailroom employees in the Ohio Statehouse and post offices in Cleveland and Akron intercepted the 25 letters, which never made it to their intended recipients. The return addresses on the letters were deemed fake. Some letters contained words such as “pig” and “racist” on them, according to court records.
In late July, investigators for the U.S. Postal Inspection service conducted surveillance on Steinle's home after a tip from another court employee that Steinle might be involved in sending the letters. Investigators witnessed Steinle mailing a letter while wearing a glove and after retrieving the letter, determined it to be contaminated with feces. The letter was addressed to Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, according to court records.
A message was left with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service seeking comment. It is not clear if the feces were human or animal.
Senate GOP spokesperson John Fortney called the incident in early July “outrageous” and a serious health risk.
“This type of biohazard attack doesn’t just stop with the people it’s directed towards,” Fortney said. “This is something that could potentially affect every single employee at the Ohio Statehouse, regardless of their political affiliation.”
Steinle was released on a $20,000 unsecured bond and his next hearing is set for Aug. 25.
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Chance of snow 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 20. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, cold with highs in the lower 30s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s. West winds
15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 20. Highs in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s. Highs
in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 20s. Highs in the lower 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ065-181600-
Western Dutchess-
Including the cities of Poughkeepsie, Beacon, and Arlington
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 40. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.
Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 20s. Highs in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
40s. Lows in the mid 20s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
$$
NYZ041-181600-
Northern Saratoga-
Including the city of Saratoga Springs
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain or snow showers this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds around 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of snow
40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20. Highs
around 40.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
20s. Highs in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around
20. Highs in the upper 30s.
$$
NYZ038-181600-
Southern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, Mohawk,
Frankfort, and Doldgeville
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of snow showers this
morning, then mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or snow
showers this afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 19. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Snow showers. Light snow accumulation. Cold with highs in
the lower 30s. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of snow 80 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 40.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
Lows in the lower 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 40.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to
20. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ032-181600-
Northern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Atwell, Big Moose, Eagle Bay, Mckeever,
Nobleboro, Northwood, and Old Forge
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of snow this morning, then a
slight chance of snow showers this afternoon. Cold with highs around
30. Southwest winds around 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of
snow 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 17. Southwest winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s.
Southwest winds around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers after
midnight. Cold with lows around 14. South winds around 10 mph.
Chance of snow 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Snow showers in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Moderate snow accumulation.
Cold with highs in the mid 20s. West winds around 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph. Chance of snow 80 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
evening. Cold with lows 5 to 10 above. Chance of snow 50 percent.
Wind chill values as low as zero.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
Lows 15 to 20. Wind chill values as low as zero.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Cold. Lows
around 10 above. Highs in the lower 30s.
$$
NYZ042-181600-
Northern Warren-
Including the cities of North Creek, Warrensburg, and Chestertown
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 30s. Temperature falling into the lower 30s this
afternoon. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 18. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 17. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow showers.
Cold with highs in the lower 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 10 above.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
Lows in the lower 20s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to
20. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ083-181600-
Southeast Warren-
Including the city of Glens Falls
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain or snow showers this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
South winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 15.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
20s. Highs in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around
20. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ043-181600-
Northern Washington-
Including the cities of Whitehall and Granville
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows 10 to 15.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
20s. Highs around 40.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around
20. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ084-181600-
Southern Washington-
Including the cities of Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Cambridge,
and Greenwich
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of snow showers this afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
20s. Highs in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around
20. Highs in the upper 30s.
$$
NYZ082-181600-
Northern Fulton-
Including the cities of Caroga Lake, Northville, and Mayfield
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy. A
20 percent chance of snow showers. Cold with highs around 30.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 15. Southwest winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s.
Southwest winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 17. Southwest
winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Snow showers likely. Light snow accumulation possible.
Cold with highs in the mid 20s. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 35 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 10 above.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
Highs in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs
in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Cold. Lows
10 to 15. Highs around 30.
$$
NYZ039-181600-
Southern Fulton-
Including the cities of Gloversville and Johnstown
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of snow showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 16. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 19. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Snow showers likely. Light snow accumulation possible.
Cold with highs around 30. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of snow 60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15. Highs in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
20s. Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to
20. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ040-181600-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Amsterdam, Wellsville, and Fonda
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of snow showers this afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of snow
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 17. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 19. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow showers in the morning,
then mostly cloudy with snow showers likely in the afternoon. Light
snow accumulation possible. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. West
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of snow
60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 15. Highs in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
20s. Highs in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to
20. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ047-181600-
Schoharie-
Including the cities of Cobleskill and Middleburgh
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of snow showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of snow
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 19. Southwest winds around 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Southwest winds around
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow showers.
Cold with highs in the lower 30s. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
20s. Highs in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around
20. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ048-181600-
Western Schenectady-
Including the cities of Delanson, Esperance, and Duanesburg
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of snow showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of snow
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 20. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
A 50 percent chance of snow showers. Cold with highs around 30.
Temperature falling into the mid 20s in the afternoon. West winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20. Highs in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
20s. Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around
20. Highs in the lower 30s.
$$
NYZ049-181600-
Eastern Schenectady-
Including the cities of Schenectady and Rotterdam
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain or snow showers this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. West
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of snow
40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs
around 40.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
20s. Highs in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 20s. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ050-181600-
Southern Saratoga-
Including the cities of Ballston Spa, Clifton Park, Mechanicville,
and Waterford
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain or snow showers this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. West
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of snow
40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs
around 40.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
20s. Highs in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 20s. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ051-181600-
Western Albany-
Including the cities of Altamont and Berne
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of snow showers this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 18. Southwest winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 19. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the afternoon.
Cold with highs around 30. Temperature falling into the mid 20s in
the afternoon. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of snow 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20. Highs in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
20s. Highs around 40.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around
20. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ053-181600-
Western Rensselaer-
Including the city of Troy
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of snow showers this
afternoon. Highs around 40. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 30s. Temperature falling into the lower 30s in the
afternoon. West winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
20s. Highs in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 20s. Highs in the upper 30s.
$$
NYZ054-181600-
Eastern Rensselaer-
Including the cities of Grafton and Hoosick Falls
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of snow showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 20. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the afternoon.
Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Temperature falling into the mid
20s in the afternoon. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
35 mph. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20. Highs in
the mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
20s. Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around
20. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ060-181600-
Western Columbia-
Including the city of Hudson
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain or snow showers this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s. Southwest winds around 10 mph.
Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 20. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows around 20.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 40. Lows in
the upper 20s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 20s. Highs in the mid 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
$$
NYZ061-181600-
Eastern Columbia-
Including the city of Chatham
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of snow showers this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds around 10 mph.
Chance of snow 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 20s. Highs around 40.
$$
NYZ059-181600-
Eastern Greene-
Including the cities of Catskill, Coxsackie, Athens, Cairo,
and Jefferson Heights
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain or snow showers this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 20. South winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.
Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s.
Highs in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 20s. Highs in the mid 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
$$
NYZ063-181600-
Western Ulster-
Including the cities of Ellenville, Woodstock, West Hurley,
Kerhonkson, Napanoch, and Phoenicia
328 AM EST Fri Nov 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of snow showers this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows around 18. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 19. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs around 30. West winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 15 to 20. Highs in the
upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.
Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 20s. Highs in the upper 30s.
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain or snow showers this
afternoon. Highs around 40. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.
Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s. Highs
in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 20s. Highs in the mid 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 40.
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around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Cold with
lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 20. Highs in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
Highs in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 20s. Highs in the upper 30s.
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YOSEMITE, Calif. (KRON) – A married couple from San Jose, California, was killed in a rockslide at Yosemite National Park on Tuesday, park officials confirmed to Nexstar’s KRON.
The victims were identified as Georgios Theocharous, 51, and Ming Yan, 35.
The rockslide took place about a half-mile from Yosemite’s Arch Rock Entrance Station. Theocharous and Yang were sitting in their Dodge Ram when the vehicle was struck by the rocks.
Yosemite officials said the rocks fell 1,000 feet. They pushed the vehicle off the road, landing it on the embankment of the Merced River.
Park officials said about 185 tons of rock, in total, were involved in the rockslide, which affected 500 feet of the road. That roadway, known as the El Portal Road, was closed for the rest of the day Tuesday, officials with Yosemite wrote on Twitter.
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Investigators now contend a vehicle carrying an Indiana congresswoman caused a deadly crash.
Rep. Jackie Walorski was a passenger in a RAV 4, which authorities say veered into oncoming traffic on Wednesday.
According to CBS News, investigators are still trying to determine what caused the vehicle to cross the center line of State Road 19 in Elkhart County, Indiana.
Authorities initially claimed the other vehicle was at fault, but they said they came across new evidence.
All three people inside the RAV 4 died. The driver of the other vehicle was also killed in the crash.
Walorski had served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2013.
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WATCH: WYMT Sports Overtime - January 27, 2023
Published: Jan. 27, 2023 at 11:51 PM EST|Updated: 2 hours ago
HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - We’ve got tons of All-A action from Richmond, plus rivalry basketball in the Cumberland Valley and history in the Big Sandy Valley.
You can watch all the action in the playlist above!
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LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 6, 2023
NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against NewAge, Inc. ("NewAge" or the "Company") (OTC: NBEVQ) in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado on behalf of all persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired NewAge securities between January 18, 2018 and October 18, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period").
All investors who purchased the shares and incurred losses are advised to contact the firm immediately at classmember@whafh.com or (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774. You may obtain additional information concerning the action or join the case on our website, www.whafh.com.
If you have incurred losses, you may, no later than February 6, 2023, request that the Court appoint you lead plaintiff of the proposed class. Please contact Wolf Haldenstein to learn more about your rights.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE CASE
On January 10, 2022, NewAge filed an 8-K announcing that the Board and Defendant Willis agreed that he would "resign as [CEO], Director, and employee of the Company, effective immediately. The Company and Mr. Willis will determine the terms of his departure at a future date. [. . .] Ed Brennan will provide additional guidance and direction to the senior management team [. . .]." In response, the stock went down 6% on each of the following trading days, from an opening price of $0.98 to a closing price of $0.9251 on January 11 and from an opening price of $0.935 to a closing price of $0.88 on January 12.
On May 17, 2022, the Company announced after trading hours that it had received a late notice from Nasdaq regarding the filing of its Form 10-Q. The next day, the stock went down by 8%, from an opening price of $0.391 per share to $0.3591 per share.
On June 8, 2022, after trading had concluded for the day, the Company announced that it was undertaking a review of "strategic alternatives," including "available financing alternatives, a potential financial restructuring, merger, sale or other strategic transaction." The next day, NewAge's share price went down 12%, from $0.42 per share to $0.3703.
On August 30, 2022, NewAge announced that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief. Further, On August 31, 2022, The Wall Street Journal released an article called "New Age Says Cost of Internal Probe Contributed to Bankruptcy," which highlighted the fact that in its Chapter 11 disclosure, NewAge admitted that it had conducted an expensive internal investigation into Ariix for suspected violations of the FCPA. The next day, the stock closed down 39%, from an opening price of $0.2016 per share to $0.1222 per share. It further plummeted on September 2, 2022, closing down 27%, from an opening of $0.20 per share to $0.1482.
On September 2, 2022, after trading hours in the domestic markets had finished for the day, NewAge filed an 8-K announcing that it had received writing notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") that, as a result of its filing for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, Nasdaq determined that NewAge's securities would be delisted from Nasdaq, beginning on September 8, 2022. In response to this news, NewAge stock closed down 9% on September 6, 2022, from an opening price of $0.1368 to a closing price of $0.125.
On October 18, 2022, the SEC announced that it was taking legal action against Defendant Willis. Specifically, he was alleged to have engaged in a "multi-year fraud by disseminating numerous false and misleading press releases and making false public statements concerning NewAge's business dealings, and aided and abetted NewAge's disclosure of material information in violation of Regulation FD," and was accordingly charged under Section 10(b) and corresponding Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act, Section 17(a) of the Securities Act, and with aiding and abetting NewAge's violations of Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act and Regulation FD.
On October 19, 2022, the SEC announced that it had instituted cease-and-desist proceedings against NewAge pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act and Section 21C of the Exchange Act, enjoining NewAge from further violations of the Securities and Exchange Acts, and rules and regulations promulgated under them. In anticipation of these proceedings, NewAge submitted a settlement offer, which the SEC has accepted. The next day, NewAge stock plummeted from an opening price of $0.175 per share to $0.0013 per share, or 93%.
Wolf Haldenstein has extensive experience in the prosecution of securities class actions and derivative litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts across the country. The firm has attorneys in various practice areas; and offices in New York, Chicago and San Diego. The reputation and expertise of this firm in shareholder and other class litigation has been repeatedly recognized by the courts, which have appointed it to major positions in complex securities multi-district and consolidated litigation.
If you wish to discuss this action or have any questions regarding your rights and interests in this case, please immediately contact Wolf Haldenstein by telephone at (800) 575-0735 or via e-mail at classmember@whafh.com
Contact:
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Email: gstone@whafh.com, donovan@whafh.com or classmember@whafh.com
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli police said Sunday forces captured two Palestinians who killed three people in a stabbing attack last week and fled the scene, sparking a massive manhunt and keeping the country on edge.
The two attackers went on a stabbing rampage in the ultra-Orthodox city of Elad on Thursday, Israel’s Independence Day, killing three and wounding at least four others before bolting.
The stabbing was the latest in a series of deadly assaults deep inside the country in recent weeks. It came as Israeli-Palestinian tensions were already heightened by violence at a major holy site in Jerusalem sacred to Jews and Muslims.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told his Cabinet that forces captured “terrorists awash with incitement who killed with axes and unimaginable cruelty.”
He said Israel was entering a “new stage in the war on terror,” and said Israel was establishing a civilian national guard that would be deployed in emergency situations like the kinds of attacks the country has witnessed in recent weeks.
“The Israeli government’s main goal is to restore personal security to Israeli citizens,” he said.
A joint statement by police, the military and the Shin Bet internal security agency said the men, identified as 19- and 20-year-old Palestinians, were caught near a quarry not far from Elad following a search that began Thursday by special forces and commando units using helicopters and other means.
Images in Israeli media showed masked security forces confronting the men, who appeared to be beneath a green shrub in a rugged patch of land.
As forces scoured the area looking for the men, police called on the public to avoid the area, and urged Israelis to report suspicious vehicles or people to them.
Police said the attackers were from the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, which has re-emerged as a militant bastion in the latest wave of violence — the worst Israel has seen in years. Several of the attackers in the recent violence have come from Jenin.
At least 18 Israelis have been killed in five attacks since March, including another stabbing rampage in southern Israel, two shootings in the Tel Aviv area, and a shooting last weekend in a West Bank settlement.
Nearly 30 Palestinians have died in violence — most of whom had carried out attacks or were involved in confrontations with Israeli forces in the West Bank. But an unarmed woman and two apparent bystanders were also among those killed and rights groups say Israel often uses excessive force.
The violence has been fueled by tensions at a Jerusalem hilltop compound holy to both Muslims and Jews, where Palestinians have clashed recently with Israeli police.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is the third holiest site in Islam and is built on a hilltop that is the holiest site for Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount. It lies at the emotional heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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MILAN (AP) — Vandals set fire and destroyed a seminal artwork by one of Italy’s most famous living artists early Wednesday outside Naples’ City Hall.
By the time flames were doused, all that was left of the installation by Michelangelo Pistoletto was a charred frame.
Pistoletto’s artwork, titled “Venus of the Rags” had been display in Naples since June 28. It featured a large plaster neoclassical nude Venus, inspired by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen’s 19th century “Venus with Apple,” picking through a mountain of rags.
Pistoletto made several versions of “Venus of the Rags.” The first, in 1967, had a concrete or cement Venus purchased at a garden center covered with mica to create a glittery surface. Others used plaster casts of the that statue, and one was made out of Greek marble containing mica, according to the Tate Gallery, which owns one of the pieces.
Pistoletto told the Corriere della Sera daily newspaper that the reasons for the attack could be many.
“It is a work that calls for regeneration, on the necessity to find a balance and harmony between two minds that are represented on the one hand by beauty, and on the other by consummate consumerism, a disaster,’’ the 90-year-old artist said.
He added: “The world is going up in flames anyway. The same spirits that are waging war are the ones that set the Venus on fire. “
Pistoletto is a painter, object artist and art theorist who is one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s through which artists attacked the political, industrial and cultural establishment.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus on Monday sentenced exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 years in prison after a trial in absentia on charges including conspiring to overthrow the government, the latest move in a months-long effort by the Belarusian government to suppress dissent.
Tsikhanouskaya ran against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in Aug. 2020, in an election that handed him his sixth term in office and was widely seen as rigged. She called her conviction and sentence an act of vengeance by Belarusian authorities and vowed to continue to “fight for freedom.”
The results of the vote triggered the largest protests in the country’s history. Lukashenko unleashed a brutal crackdown on demonstrators, accusing the opposition of plotting to overthrow the government, and Tsikhnouskaya left to Lithuania under pressure.
Other key politicians and activists were either arrested or pressured to leave the country.
Tsikhanouskaya and four other opposition figures were tried in their absence in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. Photos from the courtroom, released by Belarus’ state news agency Belta, showed an empty defendants’ cage. The charges against them also included creating and leading an extremist group, inciting hatred and harming national security.
Tsikhanouskaya told the Associated Press in an interview that her court-appointed lawyer hasn’t been in touch with her once during the trial and has not responded to her requests to review the case files.
She charged that the law and the justice system in Belarus no longer work, and the state “has turned into one big KGB.”
“The regime takes revenge on me and all Belarusians — it takes revenge for the fact that we chose freedom in 2020, for not resigning, not giving in, but continuing to fight,” Tsikhanouskaya said.
“If Lukashenko could, he would have jailed everyone,” she added.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric, asked whether Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had any reaction to Tsikhnaouskaya’s sentence, said: “This is yet another example of the concern we’ve expressed of the shrinking space for civil society and for human rights activists in Belarus.”
In addition to the prison sentence, Tsikhnaouskaya was ordered to pay a fine of about $11,000. Another exiled opposition politician, Pavel Latushka, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Latushka, who once served as Belarus’ minister of culture and then as ambassador in several European nations, was also barred for five years from holding public office.
Maryya Maroz, Volha Kavalkova and Siarhei Dylevski were handed 12-year sentences.
All of them left Belarus after the protests erupted in August 2020. The demonstrations were the largest and the most sustained since Lukashenko assumed office in 1994. He has run the country with an iron fist ever since. His government unleashed a brutal crackdown against the protesters, detaining more than 35,000 and beating thousands.
The country’s most prominent human rights advocate and the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Ales Bialiatski, was among those arrested. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week.
Tsikhanouskaya ran against Lukashenko instead of her husband, popular opposition politician Siarhei Tsikhanouski who was arrested in the middle of his campaign in 2020 and has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Last month, a court in Belarus added 18 more months to Tsikhanouski’s sentence over alleged violations of prison regulations.
Tsikhanouski maintained his innocence during the trial that was held behind closed doors, according to the Viasna human rights center, Belarus’ most prominent rights group. For two months, the politician was held “in inhumane conditions” in an isolation cell, the group said.
Viasna has counted a total of 1,456 political prisoners in Belarus.
Tsikhanouskaya said that repression in Belarus is intensifying, and every day 15-20 people in the country are being jailed, which “shows how little confidence the regime has in itself.”
“If Lukashenko thinks that this jailing regime will stop me, will stop the Belarusians, it is mistaken — we will continue to fight for freedom all the more actively,” she said.
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Free Music Friday: Brazos Blues Band
Terry Easterwood of the Brazos Blues Band joined First News at Four on February 10 for Free Music Friday.
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Terry Easterwood of the Brazos Blues Band joined First News at Four on February 10 for Free Music Friday.
Easterwood is an Aggie and Bryan-based multi-instrumentalist and singer who also plays as a solo artist.
He grew up in Temple and sang in the Temple boys’ choir and at church. He also played the violin as well as the guitar in THS’s award-winning “Highlighters” jazz band.
Easterwood went to Texas A&M after high school, studying mechanical engineering, and earned his spending money by playing in the Fine Line Band in College Station.
His love for music had him playing across Central Texas, the northwest, and South Texas, and he eventually made his way back to Central Texas.
The Brazos Blues Band is Terry Easterwood on guitar/vocals, Jay Lerew on drums, and Dave Durkovic on bass.
You can listen to more of the music by Easterwood and the Brazos Blues Band here.
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Average US gasoline price falls 45 cents to $4.10 per gallon
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline plummeted 45 cents over the past two weeks to $4.10 per gallon.
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the continued decline comes as crude oil costs also remain low.
“The drop of a dollar per gallon has not been enough to restore motorist demand, which is in retreat due to sustained high price levels,” Lundberg said in a statement.
The average price at the pump is down a dollar over the past nine weeks, but it’s 85 cents higher than it was one year ago.
Nationwide, the highest average price for regular-grade gas was in the San Francisco Bay Area, at $5.36 per gallon. The lowest average was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at $3.38 per gallon.
According to the survey, the average price of diesel plunged 37 cents over three weeks to $5.17 a gallon.
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Supreme Court approval declines amid controversies, poll says
Published: May. 24, 2023 at 6:25 AM MST|Updated: 13 minutes ago
(CNN) - Approval of the Supreme Court is declining, according to a poll by Marquette Law School.
The poll found approval of the high court stands at 41%, with 59% disapproving. That is a 6% decline since January.
The latest survey conducted in May comes after several ethics complaints and controversies surrounding the justices.
Some of the court’s decisions last year, like reversing nationwide abortion rights, also could have contributed to the lower approval rating.
As for this term, the justices have yet to issue opinions on most of the high-profile cases, including ones on LGBTQ rights, student debt relief and affirmative action.
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How hotel staffing shortages impact the rest of Cleveland’s economy
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Hotels across the Cleveland area are searching for hundreds of new employees to fill positions left vacant for years in an effort to meet booming demand. It’s a job search with rolling impacts on industries across the city.
“A lot of folks made a decision during those really hard when there just wasn’t enough business to support those jobs to move on to other things,” said president of the Ohio Hotel & Lodging Association Joe Savarise.
Savarise says studies and tracking on job sites show more than 600 open positions in the hospitality industry across the Cleveland area.
As travel bounces back from the slow pandemic years, the industry is exacerbated by shortages.
American Hotel & Lodging Association President Chip Rogers says 2023 has been a huge summer for hotels across the country, but after years of being short-staffed, the increased travel is pushing businesses to the limit.
“Hoteliers are trying to find other ways to satisfy guests, having to shut down some ancillary opportunities, some of your outlets, some of your restaurants might close down a little earlier, these the things that must be done,” said Rogers.
Rogers adds shutting down rooms is also an option when staffing is an issue.
But turning down guests due to staffing takes money out of the pockets of other businesses.
“Keep in mind, when someone comes to Cleveland or any place, for every $100 they spend on a hotel room, they spend $222 in the local economy on other items, and so it is a huge economic booster to have hotels in your local community,” said Rogers.
And it is not just restaurants and entertainment that rely on visitors staying at local hotels.
Savarise says dozens of other industries indirectly rely on thriving hotels, like valet, landscaping, and construction companies.
In an effort to bring in more employees, companies are raising wages, offering benefits, perks, and flexible hours.
Jobs can be found on hotel websites and job sites like Indeed and ZipRecruiter.
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CHICAGO – If you’ve made the decision to spend your holidays helping out Santa, then you might have a little extra money in your pocket.
As it turns out, those who serve as helpers for the big man at various places during the Christmas season can make a fair amount of cash.
That was a topic on Wednesday’s “6@6” on WGN Morning News as the hosts talked about the money made by Santa’s helpers. They also discussed human dog beds along with the way you can get your own personalized View-Master.
You can watch the discussion and those and other topics on the “6@6” on December 7 in the video above.
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, December 24, 2022
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WIND CHILL WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
320 PM CST Fri Dec 23 2022
...WIND CHILL WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as 10
above zero.
* WHERE...Portions of Deep South Texas.
* WHEN...Until noon CST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills could result in
hypothermia or frostbite if precautions are not taken.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Avoid outside activities if possible. When outside, make sure you
wear appropriate clothing, a hat, and gloves.
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska lawmaker with a history of incendiary remarks was censured by the state House Wednesday after he said it has been argued that cases of fatal child abuse can be a “cost savings” because the child won't need related government services.
The House voted 35-1 to censure Republican Rep. David Eastman of Wasilla, with Eastman the lone dissent. Eastman was previously censured, in 2017, over comments he made suggesting there are women in Alaska who try to get pregnant to get a “free trip to the city” for abortions.
During a committee hearing Monday on adverse childhood experiences, Eastman asked the testifier how he would respond “to the argument that I have heard on occasion where in the case where child abuse is fatal, obviously it’s not good for the child, but it’s actually a benefit to society” because there is not a need for government services that child would otherwise be entitled to if they had lived.
The testifier, Trevor Storrs, president and CEO of the Alaska Children's Trust, asked Eastman to repeat what he'd said. “Did you say, ‘a benefit for society?’”
“Talking dollars,” Eastman said, referencing a figure in a document provided to the committee that was related to costs associated with neglect and abuse. Eastman said it “gets argued periodically that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment.”
Storrs called the loss of a child unmeasurable.
Rep. Andrew Gray, an Anchorage Democrat who brought the censure motion Wednesday, said Eastman should be censured for “offensive, insulting and unsubstantiated statements that undermine the dignity of the House.” Gray said he also was speaking as a parent.
Eastman said Gray impugned his motives and character and labeled as outrageous and unacceptable any suggestion that he or members of his district “support child abuse when I’ve staked my entire political career arguing for the opposite.”
The House is controlled by a Republican-led majority. The predominantly Democratic minority also includes independents and a Republican. Eastman is not part of either caucus.
He has at times butted heads with Republicans, even being removed late last session from the then-Republican minority caucus and from two committees.
He last year easily won reelection in his district and withstood a challenge to his eligibility to serve in the Legislature over his ties to the far-right group Oath Keepers.
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DETROIT, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Samaritas, one of Michigan's largest health and human service organizations, will host The Ripples Gala presented by Huntington Bank on Friday, Nov. 4, at the Westin Book Cadillac Detroit hotel. The gala will feature an inspiring keynote speech by Olympic gold medalist, best-selling author, and adoptive father Scott Hamilton. This fundraiser will raise critical funds for Samaritas programs that help Michigan's most vulnerable people.
"We're so grateful to have Scott Hamilton back as a keynote speaker for The Ripples Gala," said Sam Beals, CEO at Samaritas. "Scott's inspiring words about his personal adoption journey and experience as a father of four with two adopted children are encouraging. We hope it will touch the hearts of the people on the fence about adopting or fostering."
Samaritas is one of the best-known foster care agencies in Michigan. Its staff is working to find safe havens for the 231 foster children waiting for adults to care for them. Generally, these foster kids are in permanent or long-term foster care because their parents have lost custodial rights due to severe neglect or abuse.
Adults willing to take in children six years old and up are desperately needed by Samaritas. It's a sobering fact that these older kids will never find a forever home. Statistics show that foster kids who can't find a permanent home are more likely to become homeless, misuse substances, have an unwanted pregnancy, or become impoverished. Loving families willing to adopt or foster older children can break this cycle of instability and provide a place for them to heal and flourish. Samaritas Foster Care orientations are available for prospective parents to learn about the process.
Michele Calloway is a veteran foster parent who will be honored for fostering children through Samaritas for nearly 40 years. She will be honored alongside Dr. Sonia Hassan, First Lady of Detroit, for spearheading the Detroit Refugee Network (DRN) and Rocket Companies® for serving as a critical partner with boots-on-the-ground support and innovative and generous philanthropy.
Samaritas serves thousands throughout Michigan, including refugees, children in foster care, adults with developmental disabilities, people struggling with addiction, and those in need of affordable housing.
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ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina regulators were wrong to reject a beer label that featured a silhouette of a naked man standing next to a campfire, a federal judge has ruled.
The owners of Maryland-based Flying Dog Brewery argued that the North Carolina Alcohol Beverage Control Commission violated their First Amendment rights by rejecting the label for its Freezin’ Season Winter Ale. The commission had said the label was in “bad taste,” but later allowed the beer to be sold. Flying Dog proceeded with the lawsuit anyway, hoping to get the regulation struck down.
U.S. District Judge Terrence W. Boyle ruled in favor of the craft brewery last week, finding that the regulation was vague and overbroad, violating the free speech rights of Flying Dog and its competitors. The ruling requires North Carolina to remove the current regulation.
Flying Dog CEO Jim Caruso said it was “heartening” to see such a court decision.
“The First Amendment is the last defense against authoritarian and arbitrary government and it must be protected against any and all threats,” Caruso said in a statement Monday.
“The NC ABC Commission respects Judge Boyle’s decision and appreciates his time and consideration in hearing this case,” commission spokesperson Jeff Strickland said in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday. “NC ABC Commission staff are reviewing the decision to determine the appropriate next steps.”
This is not the first time Flying Dog has gone to court over its labels. A federal appeals court ruled in favor of the brewery in 2015 regarding a ban of the sale of its Raging Bitch beer in the state of Michigan, news outlets reported. The dispute began in 2009 when a board determined the label to be “detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of the general public.” The label featured a drawing of a female dog with accentuated features, bared teeth and a tongue covered in blood.
Both of the labels were created by artist Ralph Steadman, who frequently collaborated with Hunter S. Thompson, the founder of “gonzo” journalism.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — New Titans general manager Ran Carthon has made his biggest move yet by agreeing Friday to a four-year contract extension with two-time Pro Bowl defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons, according to a person familiar with the deal.
The Titans picked up the two-time defensive captain’s fifth-year option for 2023 for $10.76 million last April. The person confirmed the extension on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because the Titans had not announced the deal.
ESPN.com first reported the deal was worth up to $94 million with $66 million guaranteed, including a $24 million signing bonus.
Agent Paul DeRousselle did not return messages from the AP. He shared a photo of himself and Simmons on social media along with Simmons’ own social media post that he wasn’t done in Tennessee
“We have so much work to do!” Simmons wrote.
The four-year extension gives some much-needed space under the salary cap for Tennessee, ranked 23rd in the NFL with $7.4 million according to Spotrac.com.
The extension includes Simmons’ fifth-year option, keeping him under contract through 2027 for an annual average of $23.5 million per year. Among NFL defensive tackles, that trails only the $31.6 million per year averaged by three-time AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald of the Los Angeles Rams.
Simmons was the 19th pick overall in the 2019 draft, dropping to Tennessee after tearing his left ACL in February preparing for the draft.
The 6-foot-4, 305-pound lineman wound up starting seven of nine games played as a rookie in 2019, and he has started 54 of 56 games played. Simmons missed two games last season with an injured ankle and said at the end of the season he needed shots in his ankle to finish the season.
Simmons has been a Pro Bowl pick each of the past two seasons. He set a career-high with 8 1/2 sacks in 2021, and he finished second last season with 7 1/2 sacks, leading the Titans in sacks in five games. He also had nine tackles for loss with 43 quarterback pressures with 53 tackles.
Carthon, hired in January, replaced Jon Robinson who was fired Dec. 6 after the Titans used more players in each of the past two seasons than any other team in the NFL. Tennessee lost its final seven games to finish 7-10 and just missed a third straight AFC South title.
This extension means the new general manager has taken care of the Titans’ biggest issue in keeping a top player happy. Robinson traded wide receiver A.J. Brown to Philadelphia during the first round of the draft last year after being unable to agree on a new contract.
Carthon still has to decide what to do about quarterback Ryan Tannehill, who has a cap hit of $36.6 million, and three-time Pro Bowl running back Derrick Henry, with his own $16.3 million salary cap hit. Both are in the final year of their current contracts.
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A 12-year-old boy is now safe after falling into a well during his school's recess, the Marysville Fire District in Washington said.
In a Facebook post, the fire department said the boy was standing on a well's concrete lid when the concrete partially collapsed, sending him about 20 feet down into the hole. He held onto a plastic pipe as he became partially submerged in water, unable to touch the bottom of the well.
The fire district responded to a 911 call about the incident just after 12:20 pm on Tuesday and arrived to find the boy conscious in the well, though he had a couple of lacerations on his head.
Crews lowered a helmet, life vest and harness for him to wear while they worked to get him back above ground, even constructing a rope system to possibly pull him up. They also carefully worked to remove the rest of the crumbling lid, which was connected to chains at the top of the well.
Once the lid was fully removed, firefighters finally were able to lower a ladder for the boy to climb out on. He was then taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation while in stable condition, and he's expected to be okay.
"Thanks to all involved in this rescue and this very brave boy for hanging in there through it all," the Marysville Fire District said.
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The solution will drive global finance transformation initiatives
LONDON, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aptitude Software is delighted to announce that InComm Payments has selected the Aptitude Accounting Hub (AAH), deployed as Software as a Service (SaaS), to drive accounting automation and data analytics across their business.
InComm Payments is an innovative global payments technology provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The company pioneered point-of-sale activation technology, which allows retailers to activate products such as gift cards at the register. Since its founding in 1992, InComm Payments has grown into one of the leading payments technology businesses in the world.
InComm Payments selected Aptitude's solution based on its ease of configurability, ability to drive granular data analysis, and proven track record of success in the market. The solution's flexibility and easy integration with third party solutions were also strong factors.
Dean Thompson, Director of Financial Systems at InComm Payments, remarked, "The implementation of the Aptitude Accounting Hub will allow our accounting team to focus more on value-adding, strategic activities, and focus less on manual reconciliations and number crunching. We believe it will position us to continue to build on our broader finance transformation journey."
Alex Curran, Aptitude EVP NA, stated, "Aptitude is the provider of choice for organizations looking to bring in an accounting rules engine and subledger to modernize their finance and accounting program. The Accounting Hub's differentiated ability to centralize and automate accounting, while driving meaningful insights, continues to be an important part of digital finance transformation success. We are thrilled to add InComm Payments to our client community."
The Aptitude Accounting Hub is the solution of choice for many organizations across the globe. Differentiators include the ability to handle complex, high-volume environments and over 20 years of built-in, specific IP – calculations, business events, processes, and templated reports – which accelerate and de-risk the implementation process.
InComm Payments is an innovative global payments technology provider. Leveraging dynamic technology and proven expertise, InComm Payments delivers enhanced end-to-end payment platforms and emerging financial technology solutions through a single integration, helping businesses grow across a wide range of industries including retail, healthcare, tolling & transit, incentives, mobile payments, digital currencies and financial services. By enabling omnichannel connections and alternative payment options to an ever-expanding consumer base in an increasingly digital ecosystem, InComm Payments creates seamless and valuable commerce experiences across the globe. With three decades of experience, over 525,000 points of retail and online distribution, 402 global patents and a presence in more than 30 countries, InComm Payments leads the payments industry from its headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. Learn more at www.InCommPayments.com.
Aptitude Software helps complex organizations automate and transform their financial business models. Our core areas of focus are the accelerating digitization of the finance function, and the global push to deploy and manage subscription offerings. Our global client base includes some of the world's largest companies. Aptitude Software is an operating company of Aptitude Software Group plc. For more information, please visit https://www.aptitudesoftware.com
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MILAN (AP) — Caught between the pandemic and war in Europe, Milan luxury fashion designers on Friday open four days of mostly menswear previews for next spring and summer in a challenging economic climate.
Runway shows have mostly returned to live format with pre-pandemic tight seating, but a longed-for return to normal has once again been delayed.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed up energy and raw materials prices, threatening a growth trajectory that saw revenues top pre-COVID levels in the first half of this year. Despite the uncertain outlook, the industry is forecasting sales of 92 billion euros, a 2% increase over pre-pandemic levels posted in 2019 and 10% higher than 2021.
“Depending on where the margins fall, we risk losing,’’ said Carlo Capasa, president of the Italian National Fashion Chamber, or CNMI.
Here are some highlights from Friday’s launching of a curtailed fashion week of some 25 runway shows:
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DSQUARED2 RIDING THE WAVES
“Waves come in seven, and we’re on No. 3,’’ said Dean Caten backstage after he and twin brother Dan presented their latest collection for their Milan label, Dsquared2. “We have all kinds of waves. We can have some happy waves, I hope.”
The Canadians presented an upbeat vision in their Spring-Summer 2023 collection, which took inspiration from a Bob Marley mish-mash of 1970s hippies and surfers.
The menswear collection gave lots of room for personal expression, from floral sarongs to linen trousers, studded leather jackets to neoprene tops, loose light beach trunks to flowing anoraks. Suit jackets found a place layering over loose parachute pants. Patterns and colors clashed happily, as soothing aqua azzurra was set off by neon salmon, fading to pastels.
“It’s very powerful, very peaceful. I think in these times we need to just share the love There are too many negative things around us. And the 1970s was peace and love,” Dean said.
Looks were layered with beads, topped with knit caps or wide-brimmed beach hats, while footwear ranged from thick sandals with slouchy socks to colorful docksiders and hiking boots.
In the Dsquared2 beach world, shirts are optional, as Italian Olympic sprinter Marcel Jacobs demonstrated in the front row with his tattoos peeking out from beneath a leather jacket. Backstage, he took it off briefly to show off some of his latest tattoos: Mount Fuji and Japanese temple on his left arm in honor of the Tokyo Games where he won gold.
“Tomorrow I am back at training, and next week I leave for (the) worlds,’’ said Jacobs, who is scheduled to compete in Eugene, Ore., from July 15-24.
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The contrast between the quiet, exclusive nature of Milan Fashion Week and the exuberance of its premier design week has never been more stark than this year.
The Milan Furniture Fair and the collateral events at Fuori Salone that make up design week closed just days before fashion week opens, boasting 400,000 visitors over six days.
Small Italian fashion brands that don’t typically show during fashion week are now pushing to open it up to the wider public, with collateral events similar to design week.
“Let’s not lose this energy. Let’s bring it into fashion. I truly believe that there could be a kind of Fuori Salone, call it what you will,’’ said Gigliola Maule, president of the Milan Showroom Chamber of Commerce, which represents showrooms for small- and medium-brands.
The proposal got the backing of the city’s economic development official, Alessia Cappello, who has called for talks with the CNMI fashion chamber to discuss formats.
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MILWAUKEE, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ademi LLP is investigating VMware (NYSE: VMW) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law in its transaction with Broadcom.
Click here to learn how to join the action: https://www.ademilaw.com/case/vmware-inc or call Guri Ademi toll-free at 866-264-3995. There is no cost or obligation to you.
Ademi LLP alleges VMware's financial outlook and prospects are excellent and yet VMware holders will receive only either $142.50 in cash or 0.2520 shares of Broadcom common stock for each VMware share, subject to proration, resulting in approximately 50% of VMware's shares being exchanged for cash consideration and 50% being exchanged for Broadcom common stock. The transaction agreement unreasonably limits competing bids for VMware by imposing a significant penalty if VMware accepts a superior bid. VMware insiders will receive substantial benefits as part of change of control arrangements.
We are investigating the conduct of VMware's board of directors, and whether they are (i) fulfilling their fiduciary duties to all shareholders, and (ii) obtaining a fair and reasonable price for VMware.
If you own VMware common stock and wish to obtain additional information, please contact Guri Ademi either at gademi@ademilaw.com or toll-free: 866-264-3995, or https://www.ademilaw.com/case/vmware-inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenGov, the leader in modern cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, state agencies, school districts, and special districts, completed its best year on record in 2022. The company accelerated growth with the launch of its newest software suite Cartegraph Asset Management, surpassed $100M in annual revenue run-rate, deployed powerful new product features and integrations across its suites, added key executives, and expanded its Board of Directors.
OpenGov is now the leading cloud software provider for GIS-based asset tracking, work order management, and infrastructure maintenance for public agencies in the U.S. Over the past few years, the "EAM" space has gone from important to extremely important given the national problems of deferred maintenance and the extraordinary focus and opportunity presented by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Across its flagship Budgeting & Planning, Permitting & Licensing, Procurement, and Enterprise Asset Management software, OpenGov ushered more than 200 new customers into the cloud in 2022. The company now serves more than 1,600 organizations across the country. Notable wins include Kansas City MO, Corpus Christi TX, Atlanta Public Schools, Harris County TX, and the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services.
"We are thrilled to partner with so many hardworking public sector leaders and their teams to power more effective and accountable government," said OpenGov CEO Zac Bookman. "Local governments face unprecedented challenges in recruiting talent, upgrading technology, and responding to ever-changing demands. Yet given the rise of millennials, advances in cloud software, and a favorable funding environment, there has never been a better time to streamline business processes, digitize workflows, elevate collaboration, and strengthen trust and responsiveness with councils, boards, and residents," added Bookman.
Many of these themes are evident in OpenGov's recently released State of Local Government Survey. To meet the increasing demand for software and technology to fill gaps and perform strategic functions, the OpenGov R&D organization launched more than 400 new features and product improvements, including significant investments in security.
Key additions to the OpenGov Cloud include:
- Budgeting & Planning capabilities that enable organizations to customize the budget intake process and tie funding requests to strategic initiatives
- Procurement capabilities that expedite the contract onboarding process by directing a digital workflow for vendors and staff that keeps projects on track and ensures compliance
- Permitting & Licensing features that enable staff to request changes from an applicant after they have submitted an application, as well as improved notifications to keep developers and residents up-to-date
- Multi-dataset reporting with "pivot" capabilities to power robust budget and financial analytics, including budget-to-actual variance analysis
- Successful completion of the SOC 2 audit to verify security, confidentiality, availability, and processing integrity
The company bolstered its leadership ranks with the addition of two new senior executives – Suresh Seshadri as CFO and Thiago Sá Freire as President of Field Operations. Sá Freire's track record includes B2B SaaS leadership experience with Chorus.ai, Hudl, Oracle, and Responsys. Seshadri brings over 15 years of enterprise software and B2B SaaS Finance leadership experience from Freshworks, AppDynamics, VMware, and Microsoft. OpenGov also appointed Shereta Williams as a Director, bringing her substantial investment banking and corporate development experience to the company's star-studded Board.
The OpenGov Support team was awarded four Stevie® Awards for Customer Service for the second consecutive year. The company was also named to the 2022 Top Workplaces USA, 2022 Forbes America's Best Startup Employers, 2022 Best Company for Women by Comparably, and listed on GovTech 100 for the seventh year in a row.
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OpenGov is the leader in modern cloud software for U.S. cities, counties, state agencies, school districts, and special districts. With a mission to power more effective and accountable government, OpenGov serves more than 1,600 agencies across the U.S. and is built exclusively for the unique budgeting, permitting and licensing, procurement, and asset management needs of the public sector. The OpenGov Cloud makes organizations more collaborative and efficient and enables best-in-class communication with stakeholders and your community.
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Jimmy Carter to celebrate 98 with family, friends, baseball
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, already the longest-living U.S. president in history, will celebrate his 98th birthday Saturday with family and friends in Plains, the tiny Georgia town where he and his wife, 95-year-old Rosalynn, were born in the years between World War I and the Great Depression.
The 39th president’s latest milestone comes as The Carter Center, which the Carters established together after their one White House term, marks 40 years of promoting democracy and conflict resolution, monitoring elections, and advancing public health in the developing world.
Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson now leading the Carter Center board, described his grandfather, an outspoken Christian, as content with his life and legacy.
“He is looking at his 98th birthday with faith in God’s plan for him,” the younger Carter, 47, said, “and that’s just a beautiful blessing for all of us to know, personally, that he is at peace and happy with where he has been and where he’s going.”
Carter Center leaders said the former president, who survived a cancer diagnosis in 2015 and a serious fall at home in 2019, already has enjoyed reading congratulatory messages sent by well-wishers around the world via social media and the center’s website. But Jason Carter said his grandfather is mostly looking forward to a simple day that includes watching his favorite Major League Baseball team, the Atlanta Braves, on television.
“He’s still 100% with it, even though daily life things are a lot harder now,” Jason Carter said. “But one thing I guarantee. He will watch all the Braves games this weekend.”
James Earl Carter Jr. won the 1976 presidential election after beginning the campaign as a little-known one-term Georgia governor. His surprise performance in the Iowa caucuses established the small, Midwestern state as an epicenter of presidential politics. Carter went on to defeat President Gerald Ford in the general election, largely on the strength of sweeping the South before his native region shifted heavily to Republicans.
A Naval Academy alumnus, Navy officer and peanut farmer, Carter won in no small part because of his promise never to lie to an electorate weary over the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal that resulted in Richard Nixon’s resignation from the presidency in 1974. Four years later, unable to tame inflation and salve voter anger over American hostages held in Iran, Carter lost 44 states to Ronald Reagan. He returned home to Georgia in 1981 at the age of 56.
The former first couple almost immediately began planning The Carter Center. It opened in Atlanta in 1982 as a first-of-its-kind effort for a former president. The stated mission: to advance peace, human rights and public health causes around the world. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He traveled internationally into his 80s and 90s, and he did not retire officially from the board until 2020.
Since opening, the center has monitored elections in 113 countries, said CEO Paige Alexander, and Carter has acted individually as a mediator in many countries, as well. Carter Center efforts have nearly eradicated the guinea worm, a parasite spread through unclean drinking water and painful to humans. Rosalynn Carter has steered programs designed to reduce stigma attached to mental health conditions.
“He’s enjoying his retirement,” said Alexander, who assumed her role in 2020, about the time Jason Carter took over for his grandfather. But “he spends a lot of time thinking about the projects that he started and the projects that we’re continuing.”
Alexander cited the guinea worm eradication effort as a highlight. Carter set the goal in 1986, when there were about 3.5 million cases annually across 21 countries, with a concentration in sub-Saharan Africa. So far this year, Alexander said, there are six known cases in two countries.
In 2019, Carter used his final annual message at the center to lament that his post-presidency had been largely silent on climate change. Jason Carter said the center’s leadership is still exploring ways to combat the climate crisis. But he offered no timetable. “We won’t duplicate other effective efforts,” Carter said, explaining that one of the center’s strategic principles is to prioritize causes and places that no other advocacy organizations have engaged.
On elections and democracy, perhaps the most unpredictable turn is that Jimmy Carter has lived to see the center turn its efforts to the home front. The center now has programs to combat mistrust in the democratic process in the United States. Carter Center personnel monitored Georgia’s recount of U.S. presidential ballots in the state in 2020 after then-President Donald Trump argued the outcome was rigged. Multiple recounts in Georgia and other states affirmed the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory.
“Certainly, we never thought we would end up coming home to do democracy and conflict resolution around our elections,” Jason Carter said. “(But) we couldn’t go be this incredible democracy and human rights organization overseas without ensuring that we were adding our voice and our expertise ... in the U.S.”
Ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, the center has asked candidates -- regardless of party -- to sign onto a set of fair election principles, including committing to the peaceful transfer of power. Among those who have signed commitments: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, and his Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams.
Carter himself has mostly retreated from politics. For years after his 1980 defeat, Democrats steered clear of him. He enjoyed a resurgence in recent election cycles, drawing visits from several 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls and, in 2021, from President Joe Biden, who in 1976 was the first U.S. senator to endorse Carter’s presidential bid. With inflation now at its highest levels since the late 1970s and early 1980s, some Republicans are bringing up Carter again as an attack line on Biden and Democrats.
Jason Carter said the former president reads and watches the news daily, and sometimes accepts calls or visits from political figures. But, he added, the former president isn’t expected to appear publicly to endorse any candidates ahead of November.
“His people that he feels sort of the closest connection with now are the folks in Plains, at his church and other places,” Jason Carter said. “But, you know, his partner No. 1, 2 and 3 is my grandma, right? He has outlived friends and so many of his advisers and the people that he accomplished so much with in the past, but they’ve never been lonely because they’ve always had each other.”
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ATLANTA, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameris Bank today announced the Ameris Down Payment Grant Program, committing $10 million in grants over the next three years to eligible first-time homebuyers for down payment and closing cost assistance.
"Especially given today's tough housing market, the objective of this program is to reduce barriers to homeownership and strengthen communities," said Palmer Proctor, CEO of Ameris Bank. "This program will provide hundreds of low-to-moderate income homebuyers in underserved communities, including minority communities, with funding and education assistance to help them achieve homeownership."
The Ameris Down Payment Grant Program:
- Provides qualified borrowers up to $12,500 in forgivable grants to use toward down payment and closing costs
- May be combined with other federal, state and local grant programs
- Includes homebuyer education to help first-time buyers prepare for the step of homeownership
For more details on the Ameris Down Payment Grant Program, please visit amerisbank.com/grant.
The Ameris Bank website also provides a homebuyer guide, mortgage calculator and other educational resources for homebuyers.
Ameris Bancorp (Nasdaq: ABCB) is a financial services company committed to bringing financial peace of mind to its communities. Headquartered in Atlanta, it operates 164 financial centers across the Southeast and also serves consumer and business customers nationwide through select lending channels. Ameris Bank manages more than $23 billion in assets as of June 30, 2022 and provides a full range of traditional banking and lending products, treasury and cash management, wealth management, insurance premium financing, and mortgage and refinancing services. Learn more about Ameris Bank at www.amerisbank.com.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The wife of jailed Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak has sought to remove the judge set to deliver a verdict in her graft trial Thursday, citing a loss of confidence after an alleged guilty judgment was leaked online.
Rosmah Mansor faces three charges of soliciting bribes and receiving 6.5 million ringgit ($1.5 million) between 2016 and 2017 to help a company secure a 1.25 billion ringgit ($279 million) project to provide solar energy panels to schools on Borneo island.
The verdict comes a week after Najib began his 12-year prison term after losing his final appeal in one of the five graft cases against him involving the pilfering of the 1MDB state fund.
In her application filed Tuesday, Rosmah cited a 71-page document posted last Friday on a website that allegedly contained a guilty judgment against her. She said she was shocked to read it was not written by the judge himself but by unknown people in the court's “research unit."
As such, Rosmah said she was not confident that High Court Judge Zaini Mazlan can carry out his duty fairly as he may be influenced by third parties. She is asking Zaini to recuse himself Thursday and for a retrial by a new judge.
Malaysia’s top court slammed the action of the website, run by a blogger based in England, as “a deliberate act” to smear the court’s reputation and has lodged a complaint with police. Police have said the leaked document was research work on the ongoing trial and not a judgment.
The Federal Court earlier filed a police report against the same website for publishing what it said was the Federal Court’s guilty verdict against Najib, just before the ruling was read in court. The court has said that leaked document was a working draft of the ruling.
If found guilty, Rosmah, 70, is expected to appeal to higher courts and to remain free on bail pending their rulings.
The couple have been hit with multiple counts of graft after the shocking ouster of Najib’s United Malays National Organization political party in the 2018 elections, fueled by public anger over the 1MDB scandal. UMNO has since returned to power after the reformist government that won those elections collapsed.
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